--- title: He lay himself, in steel armour, on a bench, but one arm was free fr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: He lay himself, in steel armour, on a bench, but one arm was free from armour, and he felt a burning pain in it, and to his terror he observed a gaping wound, as from the blow of a sword, stretching from the shoulder to the elbow, and the warm blood trickled down. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen, one arm, warm blood, sword), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:7:103 # text = He lay himself, in steel armour, on a bench, but one arm was free from armour, and he felt a burning pain in it, and to his terror he observed a gaping wound, as from the blow of a sword, stretching from the shoulder to the elbow, and the warm blood trickled down. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 gaping gape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 49 from from ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 60 trickled trickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 61 down down ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | | steel armour | | on a bench | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | one arm | | | armour | | free *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | past | Graumännchen | a burning pain | | pain | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Theme in it=Location | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **observe** | past | Graumännchen | a gaping wound | Graumännchen's terror | | | as the blow of a sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wound=Topic to terror=Recipient | | 6 | **gape** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stretch** | gerund | Graumännchen *not said here* | | | the shoulder | | to the elbow | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Location | | 8 | **trickle down** | participle | the warm blood | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 9 | **blow** | | a sword | | | | | | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/104/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)