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title: Alarmed, the Countess turned round, but lost all fear so soon as she… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Alarmed, the Countess turned round, but lost all fear so soon as she beheld the form of the grey man. Who acts: Countess. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, 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 6, sentence 69

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Alarmed, the Countess turned round, but lost all fear so soon as she beheld the form of the grey man.

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**Who acts:** Countess · **What happens:** alarm, turn round, lose, behold, form · **To what, where:** fear, form, grey man

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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: who acts (Countess), 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:pg74323:23:69
# text = Alarmed, the Countess turned round, but lost all fear so soon as she beheld the form of the grey man.
1	Alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | participle | the Countess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn round** | past | the Countess |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | the Countess *not said here* | all fear |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality |
| 4 | **behold** | past | Countess | the form of the grey man |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the grey man |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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