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title: Dreadful gloom enveloped the frightened man. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Dreadful gloom enveloped the frightened man. Who acts: Dreadful gloom. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 103

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Dreadful gloom enveloped the frightened man.

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**Who acts:** Dreadful gloom · **What happens:** envelop · **To what, where:** frightened man

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dreadful gloom), 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:pg74323:21:103
# text = Dreadful gloom enveloped the frightened man.
1	Dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **envelop** | past | Dreadful gloom | the frightened man |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-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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