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title: As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or a hornet, or bat flew into his hair or face, and in his fright he forgot to say, "_J'y pense! Who acts: wooer, object, bat. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 55

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As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or a hornet, or bat flew into his hair or face, and in his fright he forgot to say, "\_J'y pense!

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**Who acts:** wooer, object, bat · **What happens:** take, spring, fly, forget, not say, fright · **To what, where:** object, hair, fright, J'y pense · **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 (wooer, object, bat), 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:pg74323:13:55
# text = As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or a hornet, or bat flew into his hair or face, and in his fright he forgot to say, "_J'y pense!
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	J'y	J'y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	pense	pense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the wooer | the object |  |  |  | a frog *obl*; a hornet *obl*; soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 2 | **spring** | past | object |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | bat |  |  |  |  | into bat's hair or face *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hair=Result |
| 4 | **forget** | past | bat |  |  | bat's fright |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | bat *not said here* | J'y pense |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pense=Topic |
| 6 | **fright** |  | bat |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: 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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