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title: And the monk thought and studied, for before his soul stood the frag… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And the monk thought and studied, for before his soul stood the fragrant dishes of his convent and the costly wines, as attractive as the fleshpots of Egypt to the Jews; but with this vision stood the hangman, hand-in-hand with the impossibility of moving this spring through these hills, grinning in
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 6

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And the monk thought and studied, for before his soul stood the fragrant dishes of his convent and the costly wines, as attractive as the fleshpots of Egypt to the Jews; but with this vision stood the hangman, hand-in-hand with the impossibility of moving this spring through these hills, grinning in diabolical glee.

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**Who acts:** monk, impossibility · **What happens:** think, study, stand, move, grin · **To what, where:** fragrant dishes, soul, hangman, hills · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, impossibility), 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:pg74323:15:6
# text = And the monk thought and studied, for before his soul stood the fragrant dishes of his convent and the costly wines, as attractive as the fleshpots of Egypt to the Jews; but with this vision stood the hangman, hand-in-hand with the impossibility of moving this spring through these hills, grinning in diabolical glee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fleshpots	fleshpot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	through	through	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	57	det	_	_
57	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the monk |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | the fragrant dishes of monk's convent and the costly wines |  | monk's soul |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before soul=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the monk *not said here* | the hangman |  |  |  | with this vision | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hangman=Stimulus |
| 5 | **move** | gerund | the impossibility *not said here* |  |  | this hills | spring |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through hill=Trajectory |
| 6 | **grin** | gerund | the monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in diabolical glee | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glee=Theme |

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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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