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title: Then he rises, commands his companion to remain standing in the midd… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he rises, commands his companion to remain standing in the middle of the chapel, and approaches the door opposite the one by which they had entered. Who acts: monk, walls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 66

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Then he rises, commands his companion to remain standing in the middle of the chapel, and approaches the door opposite the one by which they had entered.

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**Who acts:** monk, walls · **What happens:** rise, command, remain, stand, approach, enter · **To what, where:** companion, middle, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (monk, walls), 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:pg74323:10:66
# text = Then he rises, commands his companion to remain standing in the middle of the chapel, and approaches the door opposite the one by which they had entered.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	commands	command	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	approaches	approach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | monk |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **command** | present | monk *not said here* | monk's companion |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | monk *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the chapel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 5 | **approach** | present | monk *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | opposite the one | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 6 | **enter** | past · perfect | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | by the one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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