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title: He listened, recognised the howl of a wolf, mingled with the piercin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He listened, recognised the howl of a wolf, mingled with the piercing neighing of a horse in deadly terror, and at the same time saw a rider tearing in fear over the mountains, without giving any heed to his calls. Who acts: Ernst, piercing, rider, wolf. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 11

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He listened, recognised the howl of a wolf, mingled with the piercing neighing of a horse in deadly terror, and at the same time saw a rider tearing in fear over the mountains, without giving any heed to his calls.

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**Who acts:** Ernst, piercing, rider, wolf · **What happens:** listen, recognise, mingle, neigh, see, tear · **To what, where:** howl, deadly terror, rider, fear, heed, calls · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ernst, piercing, rider, wolf), 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:pg74323:17:11
# text = He listened, recognised the howl of a wolf, mingled with the piercing neighing of a horse in deadly terror, and at the same time saw a rider tearing in fear over the mountains, without giving any heed to his calls.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
40	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Ernst |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | Ernst *not said here* | the howl of a wolf |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer howl=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mingle** | participle |  | the howl of a wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | with the piercing | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with piercing=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **neigh** | gerund | the piercing *not said here* |  |  | deadly terror |  | of a horse | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past | Ernst *not said here* | a rider |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rider=Stimulus |
| 6 | **tear** | gerund | a rider *not said here* |  |  | fear |  | over the mountains | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Trajectory |
| 7 | **give** | gerund | Ernst *not said here* | any heed | Ernst's calls |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to call=Recipient |
| 8 | **howl** |  | a wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **call** |  | Ernst |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication 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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