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title: After the departure of the enemy he hastened to the cave to take hom… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After the departure of the enemy he hastened to the cave to take home the animal, but it had grown so much it could no longer go through the entrance, and he was compelled to kill it. Who acts: farmer, animal, enemy. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Histori
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 69

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After the departure of the enemy he hastened to the cave to take home the animal, but it had grown so much it could no longer go through the entrance, and he was compelled to kill it.

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**Who acts:** farmer, animal, enemy · **What happens:** hasten, take, grow, go, compel, kill · **To what, where:** cave, animal, entrance, farmer

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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 (farmer, animal, enemy), 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:pg74323:21:69
# text = After the departure of the enemy he hastened to the cave to take home the animal, but it had grown so much it could no longer go through the entrance, and he was compelled to kill it.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | farmer |  |  | the cave | after the departure of the enemy |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  | the animal |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | could | animal |  |  | the entrance |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through entrance=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **compel** | past · passive |  | farmer |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | animal |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **depart** |  | the enemy |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=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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