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title: The serpent suddenly vanished, with such a shriek of anguish that th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The serpent suddenly vanished, with such a shriek of anguish that the shepherd was ever afterward perfectly deaf. Who acts: serpent, shriek. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 8

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The serpent suddenly vanished, with such a shriek of anguish that the shepherd was ever afterward perfectly deaf.

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**Who acts:** serpent, shriek · **What happens:** vanish, be, shriek · **To what, where:** shriek, anguish

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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 (serpent, shriek), 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:pg74323:25:8
# text = The serpent suddenly vanished, with such a shriek of anguish that the shepherd was ever afterward perfectly deaf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | the serpent | such shriek of anguish |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | such shriek of anguish |  |  |  | ever | the shepherd *nsubj*; afterward, deaf, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shriek** |  |  | anguish |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «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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