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title: The original of the rose-cup was sent to Rome; but first an exact co… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The original of the rose-cup was sent to Rome; but first an exact copy of it was made in clay and preserved in Elend. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, 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 11, sentence 5

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The original of the rose-cup was sent to Rome; but first an exact copy of it was made in clay and preserved in Elend.

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**What happens:** send, make, preserve, copy · **To what, where:** original, Rome, exact copy, clay, Elend, cup

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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: 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:pg74323:12:5
# text = The original of the rose-cup was sent to Rome; but first an exact copy of it was made in clay and preserved in Elend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Elend	Elend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the original of the rose cup | Rome |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to rome=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | a exact copy of cup |  | clay |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  | Elend |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **copy** |  |  | cup |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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