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title: There is a legend that once, when the enemy stormed the gates, St. M… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a legend that once, when the enemy stormed the gates, St. Michael suddenly appeared over the entrance in a flame, with countenance of wrath and drawn sword, at sight of whom every man fled. Who acts: legend, enemy, St., man. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 57

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There is a legend that once, when the enemy stormed the gates, St. Michael suddenly appeared over the entrance in a flame, with countenance of wrath and drawn sword, at sight of whom every man fled.

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**Who acts:** legend, enemy, St., man · **What happens:** be, storm, appear, draw, flee · **To what, where:** legend, entrance

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, enemy, St., man), 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:pg74323:8:57
# text = There is a legend that once, when the enemy stormed the gates, St. Michael suddenly appeared over the entrance in a flame, with countenance of wrath and drawn sword, at sight of whom every man fled.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stormed	storm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nmod	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a legend |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **storm** | past | the enemy | a legend |  |  |  | the gates *obj*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past | St. |  |  | the entrance |  | in a flame; with countenance of wrath and drawn sword; at sight; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over entrance=Location |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flee** | past | every man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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