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title: But as he reached the steps of the altar, all the four horse-shoes f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he reached the steps of the altar, all the four horse-shoes fell off, and the horse and his rider sank to the ground. Who acts: Three, four horse shoes, horse. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 102

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But as he reached the steps of the altar, all the four horse-shoes fell off, and the horse and his rider sank to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Three, four horse shoes, horse · **What happens:** reach, fall off, sink, step · **To what, where:** steps, altar

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three, four horse shoes, horse), 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:pg74323:25:102
# text = But as he reached the steps of the altar, all the four horse-shoes fell off, and the horse and his rider sank to the ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Three | the steps of the altar |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 2 | **fall off** | past | all four horse shoes |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sink** | past | the horse and Three's rider |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **step** |  |  | the altar |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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