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title: Through meadow and forest, over mountain and ravine, flee the pursue… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Through meadow and forest, over mountain and ravine, flee the pursuer and pursued, the white steed always in advance, fleeing swift as a meteor through the heavens; behind, the black steed, like a spirit from the eternal darkness. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 35

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Through meadow and forest, over mountain and ravine, flee the pursuer and pursued, the white steed always in advance, fleeing swift as a meteor through the heavens; behind, the black steed, like a spirit from the eternal darkness.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** flee, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuer, meadow, white steed, advance, swift, heavens

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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 (you), 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:pg74323:2:35
# text = Through meadow and forest, over mountain and ravine, flee the pursuer and pursued, the white steed always in advance, fleeing swift as a meteor through the heavens; behind, the black steed, like a spirit from the eternal darkness.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	flee	flee	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pursuer |  | meadow and forest and mountain and ravine |  | the black steed *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pursuer=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pursue** | past | you *not said here* | the white steed |  | advance |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent steed=Theme in advance=Trajectory |
| 3 | **flee** | gerund | you *not said here* | swift |  | the heavens |  | as a meteor | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swift=Initial\_Location |

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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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