--- title: At last one of the reverend prelates grew angry and exclaimed: "Thos… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: At last one of the reverend prelates grew angry and exclaimed: "Those three partridges now turning on the spit in the kitchen will fly, before the faith of the heretical Augustine monk will gain power in this good city." Who acts: reverend prelates, three partridges, faith. A sentence of «Legends an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/) / 41 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 41 At last one of the reverend prelates grew angry and exclaimed: "Those three partridges now turning on the spit in the kitchen will fly, before the faith of the heretical Augustine monk will gain power in this good city." **Who acts:** reverend prelates, three partridges, faith · **What happens:** grow, exclaim, turn, fly, gain · **To what, where:** spit, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reverend prelates, three partridges, faith), 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:pg74323:15:41 # text = At last one of the reverend prelates grew angry and exclaimed: "Those three partridges now turning on the spit in the kitchen will fly, before the faith of the heretical Augustine monk will gain power in this good city." 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 reverend reverend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 prelates prelate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 partridges partridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 heretical heretical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 Augustine Augustine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 38 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the reverend prelates | | | | | at last one; angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the reverend prelates *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund | that three partridges *not said here* | | | the spit | now | in the kitchen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on spit=Source in kitchen=Trajectory | | 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | future | that three partridges | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **gain** *in a quote* | future | the faith of the heretical Augustine monk | power | | | | in this good city | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient power=Extent in city=Attribute | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/42/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/)