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title: A large wolf hung on the neck of the almost prostrate horse, on whos… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A large wolf hung on the neck of the almost prostrate horse, on whose back sat a charming maiden. Who acts: large wolf, back. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 13

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A large wolf hung on the neck of the almost prostrate horse, on whose back sat a charming maiden.

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**Who acts:** large wolf, back · **What happens:** hang, sit · **To what, where:** neck, charming maiden

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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 (large wolf, back), 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:pg74323:17:13
# text = A large wolf hung on the neck of the almost prostrate horse, on whose back sat a charming maiden.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle | a large wolf |  |  | the neck of the prostrate horse |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past | back | a charming maiden |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=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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