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title: This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the hearth refused to burn. Who acts: This, coals. 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 37

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This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the hearth refused to burn.

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**Who acts:** This, coals · **What happens:** repeat, throw, refuse, not burn · **To what, where:** coals, hearth

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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 (This, coals), 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:pg74323:11:37
# text = This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the hearth refused to burn.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | This |  |  |  | time | answer *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | the coals *not said here* |  | the hearth |  | once *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on hearth=Destination |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | the coals |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **burn** | to-infinitive | the coals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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