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title: Fearfully raged the storm in the tops of the firs and beeches, and d… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Fearfully raged the storm in the tops of the firs and beeches, and drove dust and gravel in wild whirls up the mountain path, on which now a wanderer, with hair wildly blowing in the wind and fluttering garments, descended. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by T
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 102

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Fearfully raged the storm in the tops of the firs and beeches, and drove dust and gravel in wild whirls up the mountain path, on which now a wanderer, with hair wildly blowing in the wind and fluttering garments, descended.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** rage, drive, whirl up, blow, flutter, descend · **To what, where:** storm, tops, dust, mountain path, wind, garments

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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 (hair), 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:pg74323:22:102
# text = Fearfully raged the storm in the tops of the firs and beeches, and drove dust and gravel in wild whirls up the mountain path, on which now a wanderer, with hair wildly blowing in the wind and fluttering garments, descended.
1	Fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	whirls	whirl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	conj	_	_
42	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | past |  | the storm |  | the tops of the firs and beeches |  | fearfully *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past |  | dust and gravel |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme dust=Trajectory |
| 3 | **whirl up** | present |  | the mountain path |  |  |  | a wanderer and hair *conj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund | hair *not said here* |  |  | the wind |  | wildly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **flutter** | gerund | hair *not said here* | garments |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme |
| 6 | **descend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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