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title: The Giant in rage and fury spurs on his dusky steed to leap after he… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant in rage and fury spurs on his dusky steed to leap after her, but falls and is broken on the rocks, and ever since, transformed into a hell-hound, he guards the golden crown in the Bode Kessel. Who acts: eagle. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 51

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The Giant in rage and fury spurs on his dusky steed to leap after her, but falls and is broken on the rocks, and ever since, transformed into a hell-hound, he guards the golden crown in the Bode Kessel.

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**Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** leap, break, transform, guard · **To what, where:** rocks, golden crown, Bode Kessel

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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 (eagle), 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:pg74323:2:51
# text = The Giant in rage and fury spurs on his dusky steed to leap after her, but falls and is broken on the rocks, and ever since, transformed into a hell-hound, he guards the golden crown in the Bode Kessel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	mark	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	since	since	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Bode	Bode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Kessel	Kessel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after steed |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive | eagle *not said here* |  |  | the rocks |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: on rock=Location |
| 3 | **transform** | participle |  | the rocks *not said here* |  |  | ever | into a hell hound *result*; since *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hound=Result |
| 4 | **guard** | present | eagle | the golden crown |  | the Bode Kessel |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Beneficiary |

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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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