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title: The throne was one ruby, the canopy a single pearl, the steps leadin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The throne was one ruby, the canopy a single pearl, the steps leading up to the throne were emeralds. Who acts: throne, steps. 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 93

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The throne was one ruby, the canopy a single pearl, the steps leading up to the throne were emeralds.

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**Who acts:** throne, steps · **What happens:** be, lead up · **To what, where:** one ruby, emeralds

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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 (throne, steps), 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:pg74323:12:94
# text = The throne was one ruby, the canopy a single pearl, the steps leading up to the throne were emeralds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
15	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the throne | one ruby and the canopy |  |  |  | the canopy *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead up** | gerund | the steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the throne | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to throne=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the steps | emeralds |  |  |  |  | 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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