--- title: Then the black wings of the arch-fiend unfolded and spread themselve… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Then the black wings of the arch-fiend unfolded and spread themselves, he soared high in the air, let fall the millstone on the miller, who was buried beneath it and the ruins of the mill, broken to atoms. Who acts: black wings, fear. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black wings, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:11:25 # text = Then the black wings of the arch-fiend unfolded and spread themselves, he soared high in the air, let fall the millstone on the miller, who was buried beneath it and the ruins of the mill, broken to atoms. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 arch-fiend arch-fiend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 unfolded unfold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 soared soar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 millstone millstone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unfold** | past | the black wings of the arch-fiend | | | | then | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **spread** | past | the black wings of the arch-fiend *not said here* | wings *= wing* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | | 3 | **soar** | past | fear | | | | | in the air; high *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in air=Attribute | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | fear *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | infinitive | fear *not said here* | the millstone | | the miller | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient millstone=Result | | 6 | **bury** | past · passive | | the miller | | millstone | | the ruins of the mill *conj* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beneath it=Destination | | 7 | **break** | participle | | the ruins of the mill *not said here* | | | | to atoms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to atom=Result | | 8 | **ruin** | | | the mill | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/26/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/)