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title: At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs tears through the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, and the Hackel Forest, the night or death owl flies before him, which the people call the Tut-Osel. Who acts: Hackel Forest, people. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountai
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 21

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At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs tears through the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, and the Hackel Forest, the night or death owl flies before him, which the people call the Tut-Osel.

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**Who acts:** Hackel Forest, people · **What happens:** tear, fly, call · **To what, where:** storm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hackel Forest, people), 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:pg74323:13:21
# text = At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs tears through the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, and the Hackel Forest, the night or death owl flies before him, which the people call the Tut-Osel.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Hackelberg	Hackelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	tears	tear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Thuringian	Thuringian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Hackel	Hackel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	Tut	Tut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Osel	Osel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | present | the Hackel Forest *not said here* |  |  | storm and rain and dogs |  | through the Thuringian Forest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fly** | present | the Hackel Forest |  |  |  | before boar; midnight |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 3 | **call** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | which *obj*; the Tut Osel *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |

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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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