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title: And Schlosser embraced his wife and children, and went with the two… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And Schlosser embraced his wife and children, and went with the two men, who looked, scornfully laughing, at each other, after having laid eighty glittering new Thaler on the table. Who acts: Schlosser, two men. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical T
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 175

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And Schlosser embraced his wife and children, and went with the two men, who looked, scornfully laughing, at each other, after having laid eighty glittering new Thaler on the table.

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**Who acts:** Schlosser, two men · **What happens:** embrace, go, look, laugh, have, lay · **To what, where:** wife, each, eighty, new Thaler, table

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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 (Schlosser, two men), 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:pg74323:20:175
# text = And Schlosser embraced his wife and children, and went with the two men, who looked, scornfully laughing, at each other, after having laid eighty glittering new Thaler on the table.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Schlosser	Schlosser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obl	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
29	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Thaler	thaler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **embrace** | past | Schlosser | cave's wife and children |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Schlosser *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the two men | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **look** | past | the two men |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | the two men *not said here* |  |  | each |  | scornfully *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | Schlosser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | participle | Schlosser *not said here* | eighty |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eighty=Result |
| 7 | **glitter** | gerund |  | new Thaler |  | the table |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thaler=Theme |

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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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