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title: But now from a corner a man of lofty stature came forward, with spar… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But now from a corner a man of lofty stature came forward, with sparkling, burning eyes, black, bristly hair, dark, bushy eyebrows, and a crooked, arched hawk-nose. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 17

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But now from a corner a man of lofty stature came forward, with sparkling, burning eyes, black, bristly hair, dark, bushy eyebrows, and a crooked, arched hawk-nose.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come forward, burn, arch · **To what, where:** arched hawk nose, corner

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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 (man), 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:pg74323:21:17
# text = But now from a corner a man of lofty stature came forward, with sparkling, burning eyes, black, bristly hair, dark, bushy eyebrows, and a crooked, arched hawk-nose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	bristly	bristly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
32	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
35	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | a man of lofty stature | a arched hawk nose |  | a corner | now | with sparkling and burning eyes; forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from corner=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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