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title: Immediately the cave shut with a thundering noise, and the greedy Ea… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately the cave shut with a thundering noise, and the greedy Earl wanders there yet, for the enchantment is not yet broken. Who acts: cave, greedy Earl. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 11

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Immediately the cave shut with a thundering noise, and the greedy Earl wanders there yet, for the enchantment is not yet broken.

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**Who acts:** cave, greedy Earl · **What happens:** shut, wander, not break · **To what, where:** enchantment

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, greedy Earl), 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:pg74323:10:11
# text = Immediately the cave shut with a thundering noise, and the greedy Earl wanders there yet, for the enchantment is not yet broken.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	thundering	thundering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | participle | the cave |  |  |  |  | with a thundering noise; immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument |
| 2 | **wander** | present | the greedy Earl |  |  | there | yet |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **break** | present · passive |  | the enchantment |  |  | yet |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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