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title: He emptied his pockets of the precious treasures, when lo! they were… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He emptied his pockets of the precious treasures, when lo! they were worthless stones. Who acts: fairy, pockets. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, 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 10, sentence 13

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He emptied his pockets of the precious treasures, when lo! they were worthless stones.

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**Who acts:** fairy, pockets · **What happens:** empty, be · **To what, where:** pockets, worthless stones

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, pockets), 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:pg74323:11:13
# text = He emptied his pockets of the precious treasures, when lo! they were worthless stones.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
11	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** | past | fairy | fairy's pockets of the precious treasures and worthless stones |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pocket=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past | pockets *= pocket* | worthless stones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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