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title: He hurried in the direction of the neighing and howling, where he he… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He hurried in the direction of the neighing and howling, where he heard at the same time a female voice crying for help. Who acts: Ernst, female voice. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 12

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He hurried in the direction of the neighing and howling, where he heard at the same time a female voice crying for help.

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**Who acts:** Ernst, female voice · **What happens:** hurry, neigh, howl, hear, cry · **To what, where:** direction

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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, female voice), 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:pg74323:17:12
# text = He hurried in the direction of the neighing and howling, where he heard at the same time a female voice crying for help.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	nmod	_	_
8	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past | Ernst |  |  | the direction of the |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **neigh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Ernst |  |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a female voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |

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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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