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title: The four huge horse-shoes were nailed to the church door, where they… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The four huge horse-shoes were nailed to the church door, where they remained for centuries, and the awful tale was oft related to trembling listeners. Who acts: steps, awful tale. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 103

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The four huge horse-shoes were nailed to the church door, where they remained for centuries, and the awful tale was oft related to trembling listeners.

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**Who acts:** steps, awful tale · **What happens:** nail, remain, be, tremble · **To what, where:** four huge horse shoes, listeners

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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 (steps, awful tale), 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:pg74323:25:103
# text = The four huge horse-shoes were nailed to the church door, where they remained for centuries, and the awful tale was oft related to trembling listeners.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | past · passive |  | the four huge horse shoes |  |  |  | to the church door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to door=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | past | steps *= step* |  |  |  | century |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the awful tale |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund | the awful tale *not said here* | listeners |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location listener=Theme |

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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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