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title: Great burning eyes rolled like wheels of flaming fire in his awful f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Great burning eyes rolled like wheels of flaming fire in his awful face, a shaggy-haired hide clothed the spirit of the bottomless pit, and the fearful claws were extended to seize his prey. Who acts: wheels, Great burning eyes, fearful claws. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 30

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Great burning eyes rolled like wheels of flaming fire in his awful face, a shaggy-haired hide clothed the spirit of the bottomless pit, and the fearful claws were extended to seize his prey.

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**Who acts:** wheels, Great burning eyes, fearful claws · **What happens:** burn, roll, flame, clothe, be, seize · **To what, where:** Great burning eyes, fire, awful face, spirit, prey

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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 (wheels, Great burning eyes, fearful claws), 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:pg74323:21:30
# text = Great burning eyes rolled like wheels of flaming fire in his awful face, a shaggy-haired hide clothed the spirit of the bottomless pit, and the fearful claws were extended to seize his prey.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | participle |  | Great burning eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | like wheels | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flame** | gerund | wheels *not said here* | fire |  | child's awful face |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **clothe** | past | Great burning eyes | the spirit of the bottomless pit |  |  |  | a shaggy haired hide *nsubj* | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the fearful claws |  |  |  |  | extended *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the fearful claws *not said here* | child's prey |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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