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title: Now the Giant had two steeds--giant steeds--one white as the snows o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Giant had two steeds--giant steeds--one white as the snows of the Northland, his eyes shining like stars; the other, the Giant's body-horse, black as the night, with eyes like the lightning, at whose running his hoofs resounded like thunder, and the earth trembled and shook. Who acts: Giant,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 16

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Now the Giant had two steeds--giant steeds--one white as the snows of the Northland, his eyes shining like stars; the other, the Giant's body-horse, black as the night, with eyes like the lightning, at whose running his hoofs resounded like thunder, and the earth trembled and shook.

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**Who acts:** Giant, eyes, hoofs, earth, Northland · **What happens:** have, shine, run, resound, tremble, shake · **To what, where:** two steeds

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, eyes, hoofs, earth), 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:pg74323:2:16
# text = Now the Giant had two steeds--giant steeds--one white as the snows of the Northland, his eyes shining like stars; the other, the Giant's body-horse, black as the night, with eyes like the lightning, at whose running his hoofs resounded like thunder, and the earth trembled and shook.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Northland	Northland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	52	punct	_	_
49	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	advcl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	resounded	resound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
53	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Giant | two steeds and giant steeds |  |  | now | with eyes like the lightning; the other *obl*; Giant body horse *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | bridegroom's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like stars | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | bridegroom's hoofs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **resound** | past | bridegroom's hoofs |  |  |  |  | like thunder | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tremble** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shake** | past | the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **snow** |  | the Northland and bridegroom's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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