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title: But the angry cobold, who in the form of a green bottle-fly dwelt in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the angry cobold, who in the form of a green bottle-fly dwelt in another cave, had once nearly thrown him headlong from the rocks as he gathered plants, and he only saved himself by making the sign of the cross three times. Who acts: storm. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains»
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 50

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But the angry cobold, who in the form of a green bottle-fly dwelt in another cave, had once nearly thrown him headlong from the rocks as he gathered plants, and he only saved himself by making the sign of the cross three times.

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**Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** dwell, throw, gather, save, make, form · **To what, where:** green bottle fly, cave, angry cobold, rocks, plants, storm

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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:pg74323:6:50
# text = But the angry cobold, who in the form of a green bottle-fly dwelt in another cave, had once nearly thrown him headlong from the rocks as he gathered plants, and he only saved himself by making the sign of the cross three times.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cobold	cobold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
33	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | participle |  | a green bottle fly *not said here* |  | another cave |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 2 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the angry cobold |  | the rocks |  | storm *obj*; headlong, nearly, once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past | storm | plants |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | past | storm | storm |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | storm *not said here* | the sign of the cross |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | a green bottle fly |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | the cross |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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