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title: Here the Moor stood still, threw open a folding-door and pushed the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the Moor stood still, threw open a folding-door and pushed the benumbed forester into a great salon. Who acts: Moor. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, 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 14, sentence 81

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Here the Moor stood still, threw open a folding-door and pushed the benumbed forester into a great salon.

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**Who acts:** Moor · **What happens:** stand, throw, open, push, benumb · **To what, where:** folding door, benumbed forester, great salon

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moor), 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:pg74323:15:81
# text = Here the Moor stood still, threw open a folding-door and pushed the benumbed forester into a great salon.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	benumbed	benumb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	salon	salon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Moor |  |  | here | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | the Moor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | the Moor *not said here* | a folding door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **push** | past | the Moor *not said here* | the benumbed forester |  | a great salon |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent forester=Theme into salon=Destination |
| 5 | **benumb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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