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title: On his way home the countryman looked again into the cave, but nothi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On his way home the countryman looked again into the cave, but nothing more was to be seen either of the flames or the guilty Earl. Who acts: countryman. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 77

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On his way home the countryman looked again into the cave, but nothing more was to be seen either of the flames or the guilty Earl.

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**Who acts:** countryman · **What happens:** look, see · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countryman), 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:pg74323:4:77
# text = On his way home the countryman looked again into the cave, but nothing more was to be seen either of the flames or the guilty Earl.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
20	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the countryman |  |  |  | again | into the cave; on countryman's way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on way=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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