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title: Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the avenging fire of Divine wrath. Who acts: you, proud Science, Science. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 30

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Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the avenging fire of Divine wrath.

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**Who acts:** you, proud Science, Science · **What happens:** let, beware, scorch, avenge, fire · **To what, where:** proud Science, faith, avenging fire, Divine wrath

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, proud Science, Science), 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:pg74323:5:30
# text = Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the avenging fire of Divine wrath.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Science	Science	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scorch	scorch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	avenging	avenge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | proud Science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beware** | infinitive | proud Science *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scorch** | infinitive | Science | faith |  | the avenging fire of Divine wrath |  | golden wings *appos* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **avenge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | Divine wrath |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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