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title: A snow-white stag flew with the rapidity of the wind over the mounta… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A snow-white stag flew with the rapidity of the wind over the mountains, pursued by the hunters on foot and on horseback, and surrounded by the barking pack of hounds. Who acts: white stag. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 51

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A snow-white stag flew with the rapidity of the wind over the mountains, pursued by the hunters on foot and on horseback, and surrounded by the barking pack of hounds.

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**Who acts:** white stag · **What happens:** fly, pursue, surround, bark · **To what, where:** mountains

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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 (white stag), 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:pg74323:22:51
# text = A snow-white stag flew with the rapidity of the wind over the mountains, pursued by the hunters on foot and on horseback, and surrounded by the barking pack of hounds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:agent	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | a white stag |  |  | the mountains |  | with the rapidity of the wind | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location |
| 2 | **pursue** | participle |  | the mountains *not said here* |  |  |  | by the hunters on foot and horseback | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hunter=Trajectory |
| 3 | **surround** | participle | a white stag *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the barking pack of hounds *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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