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title: Then, out of a corner of the chamber, with light, noiseless steps, i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 66

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Then, out of a corner of the chamber, with light, noiseless steps, issued an odd being, a little man, with an old, wrinkled face, a long grey beard, but with not disagreeable features.

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**What happens:** issue, be, wrinkle · **To what, where:** odd little man, corner

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:23:66
# text = Then, out of a corner of the chamber, with light, noiseless steps, issued an odd being, a little man, with an old, wrinkled face, a long grey beard, but with not disagreeable features.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
19	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | a odd little man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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