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title: In a few moments the trembling old man was seized by the giant forms… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few moments the trembling old man was seized by the giant forms, led down from the summit of the mountain to a place suitable for the execution. Who acts: giant forms. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 6

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In a few moments the trembling old man was seized by the giant forms, led down from the summit of the mountain to a place suitable for the execution.

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**Who acts:** giant forms · **What happens:** seize, lead down · **To what, where:** old man, giant forms, summit

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant forms), 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:pg74323:16:6
# text = In a few moments the trembling old man was seized by the giant forms, led down from the summit of the mountain to a place suitable for the execution.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · passive | the giant forms | the old man |  |  | moment |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lead down** | participle |  | the giant forms *not said here* |  | the summit of the mountain |  | to a place | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to place=Patient |

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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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