--- title: But the beggar stood suddenly in the midst of a wonderful light, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: But the beggar stood suddenly in the midst of a wonderful light, and cried in an awful voice, before which all merriment died, and the hot blood turned to ice: "Cursed are ye who despise the poor, and give him over to death; cursed be this spot with all your pleasure and luxury; ye shall sink this v --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/81/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/) / 81 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 81 But the beggar stood suddenly in the midst of a wonderful light, and cried in an awful voice, before which all merriment died, and the hot blood turned to ice: "Cursed are ye who despise the poor, and give him over to death; cursed be this spot with all your pleasure and luxury; ye shall sink this very hour in night and darkness!" **Who acts:** beggar, merriment, hot blood, ye, your · **What happens:** stand, cry, die, turn, curse, be · **To what, where:** midst, awful voice, ice, merriment, cursed spot · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (beggar, merriment, hot blood, ye), 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:pg74323:22:81 # text = But the beggar stood suddenly in the midst of a wonderful light, and cried in an awful voice, before which all merriment died, and the hot blood turned to ice: "Cursed are ye who despise the poor, and give him over to death; cursed be this spot with all your pleasure and luxury; ye shall sink this very hour in night and darkness!" 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 before before ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 merriment merriment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 despise despise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ _ 47 over over ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 amod _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 53 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 54 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 55 with with ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 58 det:predet _ _ 57 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 luxury luxury NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ; ; PUNCT : _ 64 punct _ _ 62 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 64 nsubj _ _ 63 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 64 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 65 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 67 det _ _ 66 very very ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 68 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ! ! PUNCT . _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 " " PUNCT '' _ 64 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the beggar | | | the midst of a wonderful light | | with your pleasure and luxury; suddenly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | | | a awful voice | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | | 3 | **die** | past | all merriment | | | | | which *obl* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **turn** | participle | the hot blood | | | ice | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ice=Trajectory | | 5 | **curse** *in a quote* | participle | the beggar *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ye | | | | | who *nsubj*; despise *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **give over** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | merriment | | | to death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to death=Recipient | | 8 | **curse** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this cursed spot | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **sink** *in a quote* | shall | ye | | | | hour; night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **please** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/82/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/)