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title: Meanwhile the terrible din and roar had ceased, all grew peaceful, t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the terrible din and roar had ceased, all grew peaceful, the birds sang joyfully in the sunlight, and all notion of danger vanished from his mind. Who acts: birds, notion, farmer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 53

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Meanwhile the terrible din and roar had ceased, all grew peaceful, the birds sang joyfully in the sunlight, and all notion of danger vanished from his mind.

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**Who acts:** birds, notion, farmer · **What happens:** cease, grow, sing, vanish, mind · **To what, where:** terrible din, sunlight, mind

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, notion, farmer), 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:pg74323:9:53
# text = Meanwhile the terrible din and roar had ceased, all grew peaceful, the birds sang joyfully in the sunlight, and all notion of danger vanished from his mind.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | the terrible din and roar |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the birds |  |  | the sunlight |  | joyfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |
| 4 | **vanish** | past | all notion of danger |  |  | farmer's mind |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from mind=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **mind** |  | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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