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title: Hollow rolled the distant thunder, the dazzling lightnings flamed, a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Hollow rolled the distant thunder, the dazzling lightnings flamed, and great drops fell. Who acts: Hollow, great drops. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, 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 5, sentence 101

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Hollow rolled the distant thunder, the dazzling lightnings flamed, and great drops fell.

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**Who acts:** Hollow, great drops · **What happens:** roll, flame, fall · **To what, where:** distant thunder, dazzling lightnings

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hollow, great drops), 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:pg74323:22:101
# text = Hollow rolled the distant thunder, the dazzling lightnings flamed, and great drops fell.
1	Hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	flamed	flame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | Hollow | the distant thunder |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Agent |
| 2 | **flame** | participle |  | the dazzling lightnings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | great drops |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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