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title: All three entered the opening, and came soon to a large room contain… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: All three entered the opening, and came soon to a large room containing a well-served meal on the table, and chairs placed ready. Who acts: three, large room. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 115

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All three entered the opening, and came soon to a large room containing a well-served meal on the table, and chairs placed ready.

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**Who acts:** three, large room · **What happens:** enter, come, contain, serve, place · **To what, where:** opening, large room, served meal, table, chairs

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, large room), 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:pg74323:21:115
# text = All three entered the opening, and came soon to a large room containing a well-served meal on the table, and chairs placed ready.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
26	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | all three | the opening |  |  |  | chairs *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | all three *not said here* |  |  | a large room |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | a large room *not said here* | a served meal |  | the table |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **place** | participle |  | chairs *not said here* |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=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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