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title: But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetim… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetime, for at eleven every evening she poked her head through a hole in the church tower and _tooted_ dreadfully, and every morning at four she joined her voice in the matin-song. Who acts: Kloster. A sentence of «Legends and tales of t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 24

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But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetime, for at eleven every evening she poked her head through a hole in the church tower and \_tooted\_ dreadfully, and every morning at four she joined her voice in the matin-song.

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**Who acts:** Kloster · **What happens:** disturb, poke, toot, join, die · **To what, where:** Tut, head, hole, voice, matin song

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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 (Kloster), 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:pg74323:13:24
# text = But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetime, for at eleven every evening she poked her head through a hole in the church tower and _tooted_ dreadfully, and every morning at four she joined her voice in the matin-song.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tooted	toot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	_
35	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nmod	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	matin	matin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disturb** | past | Kloster | Tut |  |  | after Kloster's death |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **poke** | past | Kloster | Kloster's head |  |  | evening | for eleven | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **toot** | past | Kloster *not said here* |  |  | a hole in the church tower and \_ |  | dreadfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Location |
| 4 | **join** | past | Kloster | Kloster's voice |  | the matin song | morning |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 5 | **die** |  | Kloster |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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