--- title: With trembling hand the eldest of the two strangers produced the car… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: With trembling hand the eldest of the two strangers produced the cards; but however falsely he shuffled them the death-card fell to him, and he began to quake, and grew as pale as the chalk of the wall. Who acts: eldest, hide, death card. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by To --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/) / 31 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 31 With trembling hand the eldest of the two strangers produced the cards; but however falsely he shuffled them the death-card fell to him, and he began to quake, and grew as pale as the chalk of the wall. **Who acts:** eldest, hide, death card · **What happens:** tremble, produce, shuffle, fall, begin, quake · **To what, where:** cards, hide 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 (eldest, hide, death card), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:21:31 # text = With trembling hand the eldest of the two strangers produced the cards; but however falsely he shuffled them the death-card fell to him, and he began to quake, and grew as pale as the chalk of the wall. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 trembling tremble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 however however ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 falsely falsely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shuffled shuffle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 quake quake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tremble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **produce** | past | the eldest of the two strangers | the cards | | | | with trembling hand | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Result | | 3 | **shuffle** | past | hide | cards *= card* | | | | falsely *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **fall** | past | the death card | | hide | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | | 5 | **begin** | past | hide | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **quake** | to-infinitive | hide *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **grow** | past | the eldest of the two strangers *not said here* | | | | | as pale; as the chalk of the wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/32/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/)