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title: In one of the marble basins a stone vintager upset continually the c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of the marble basins a stone vintager upset continually the cask, and the clear, foaming new wine that streamed from the bung-hole bubbled up in the face of the sipping boy; in another an idol, ending in a fish's tail, blew out of a shell the clear stream in the air, and the dust of drops sho
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 74

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In one of the marble basins a stone vintager upset continually the cask, and the clear, foaming new wine that streamed from the bung-hole bubbled up in the face of the sipping boy; in another an idol, ending in a fish's tail, blew out of a shell the clear stream in the air, and the dust of drops shone in the light like diamonds and rubies.

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**Who acts:** stone vintager, new wine, idol · **What happens:** upset, foam, stream, bubble up, sip, end · **To what, where:** cask, new wine, bung hole, face, tail, shell

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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 (stone vintager, new wine, idol), 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:pg74323:15:74
# text = In one of the marble basins a stone vintager upset continually the cask, and the clear, foaming new wine that streamed from the bung-hole bubbled up in the face of the sipping boy; in another an idol, ending in a fish's tail, blew out of a shell the clear stream in the air, and the dust of drops shone in the light like diamonds and rubies.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	basins	basin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	vintager	vintager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	upset	upset	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	streamed	stream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	bung	bung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	idol	idol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nmod	_	_
68	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	67	acl	_	_
69	in	in	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	_
72	like	like	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	nmod	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
75	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	73	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upset** | past | a stone vintager | the cask |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cask=Experiencer |
| 2 | **foam** | gerund |  | new wine |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location wine=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | past | new wine |  |  | the bung hole |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from hole=Source |
| 4 | **bubble up** | participle |  | the bung hole *not said here* |  | the face of the sipping boy |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |
| 5 | **sip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **end** | gerund | another idol and the dust of drops *not said here* |  |  | a fish's tail |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **blow out** | past |  | a shell |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |
| 8 | **shine** | participle |  | drops *not said here* |  | the light like diamonds and rubies |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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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