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title: Maria sent authorised messengers to the convent of Gandersheim, the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Maria sent authorised messengers to the convent of Gandersheim, the coffin bearing Eva's name was broken open, and lo! a wooden figure with wax mask and hands! Who acts: Maria, coffin, Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 120

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Maria sent authorised messengers to the convent of Gandersheim, the coffin bearing Eva's name was broken open, and lo! a wooden figure with wax mask and hands!

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**Who acts:** Maria, coffin, Eva · **What happens:** send, bear, break, name · **To what, where:** authorised messengers, convent, name

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, coffin, Eva), 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:pg74323:20:120
# text = Maria sent authorised messengers to the convent of Gandersheim, the coffin bearing Eva's name was broken open, and lo! a wooden figure with wax mask and hands!
1	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	authorised	authorised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gandersheim	Gandersheim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Maria | authorised messengers |  | the convent of Gandersheim |  | a wooden figure with wax mask and hands *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to convent=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | the coffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **break** | past · passive |  | Eva's name |  |  |  | open *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Eva |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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