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title: Now they go through a long dark passage to great brass gates. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they go through a long dark passage to great brass gates. Who acts: thunders. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 60

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Now they go through a long dark passage to great brass gates.

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**Who acts:** thunders · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** long dark passage

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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 (thunders), 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:pg74323:10:60
# text = Now they go through a long dark passage to great brass gates.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | thunders *= thunder* |  |  | a long dark passage to great brass gates | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through passage=Initial\_Location |

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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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