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title: Meanwhile the horses had gone on with the waggon, which they now dre… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the horses had gone on with the waggon, which they now drew with perfect ease, but stood still before the chapel of Elend, and could not be brought from the spot. Who acts: horses. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with i
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 2

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Meanwhile the horses had gone on with the waggon, which they now drew with perfect ease, but stood still before the chapel of Elend, and could not be brought from the spot.

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**Who acts:** horses · **What happens:** go on, draw, stand, not bring · **To what, where:** waggon, chapel, spot

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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:pg74323:12:2
# text = Meanwhile the horses had gone on with the waggon, which they now drew with perfect ease, but stood still before the chapel of Elend, and could not be brought from the spot.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Elend	Elend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · perfect | the horses |  |  |  |  | with the waggon; meanwhile *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | horses *= horse* | the waggon |  |  | now | with perfect ease | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the chapel of Elend | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before chapel=Location |
| 4 | **not** **bring** | could · passive |  |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from spot=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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