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title: Awful thunders rolled, lightnings in fiery serpents cut their way th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Awful thunders rolled, lightnings in fiery serpents cut their way through the heavens and mountains, and a tremendous flood swept down from the Brocken, destroying all in its course. Who acts: Awful thunders, lightnings, tremendous flood. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by To
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 117

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Awful thunders rolled, lightnings in fiery serpents cut their way through the heavens and mountains, and a tremendous flood swept down from the Brocken, destroying all in its course.

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**Who acts:** Awful thunders, lightnings, tremendous flood · **What happens:** roll, cut, sweep down, destroy · **To what, where:** way, heavens, Brocken, course

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awful thunders, lightnings, tremendous flood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:12:118
# text = Awful thunders rolled, lightnings in fiery serpents cut their way through the heavens and mountains, and a tremendous flood swept down from the Brocken, destroying all in its course.
1	Awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thunders	thunder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Brocken	Brocken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | Awful thunders |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | present | lightnings in fiery serpents | lightnings's way |  | the heavens and mountains |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 3 | **sweep down** | past | a tremendous flood |  |  | the Brocken |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from brocken=Trajectory |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | a tremendous flood *not said here* |  |  | Brocken's course |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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