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title: Before her yawns the terrible rocky abyss of the Bode Valley, behind… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Before her yawns the terrible rocky abyss of the Bode Valley, behind she hears the deadly foe advancing, uttering the most dreadful curses! Who acts: mountain, deadly foe. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 43

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Before her yawns the terrible rocky abyss of the Bode Valley, behind she hears the deadly foe advancing, uttering the most dreadful curses!

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**Who acts:** mountain, deadly foe · **What happens:** yawn, hear, advance, utter · **To what, where:** terrible rocky abyss, deadly foe, dreadful curses

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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 (mountain, deadly foe), 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:pg74323:2:43
# text = Before her yawns the terrible rocky abyss of the Bode Valley, behind she hears the deadly foe advancing, uttering the most dreadful curses!
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	yawns	yawn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Bode	Bode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yawn** | present | mountain | the terrible rocky abyss of the Bode Valley |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abyss=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present | mountain | the deadly foe |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foe=Stimulus |
| 3 | **advance** | gerund | the deadly foe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the deadly foe *not said here* | the dreadful curses |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent curse=Topic |

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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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