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title: After they had partaken of the repast, three beautiful ladies in ric… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After they had partaken of the repast, three beautiful ladies in rich attire entered, and told the brothers they were accursed and doomed to remain for ever under the earth. Who acts: Brothers, three beautiful ladies. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Histor
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 117

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After they had partaken of the repast, three beautiful ladies in rich attire entered, and told the brothers they were accursed and doomed to remain for ever under the earth.

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**Who acts:** Brothers, three beautiful ladies · **What happens:** partake, enter, tell, accurs, doom, remain · **To what, where:** brothers, earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brothers, three beautiful ladies), 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:pg74323:21:117
# text = After they had partaken of the repast, three beautiful ladies in rich attire entered, and told the brothers they were accursed and doomed to remain for ever under the earth.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	partaken	partake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	iobj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **partake** | past · perfect | Brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | of the repast | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | three beautiful ladies in rich attire |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | three beautiful ladies in rich attire *not said here* |  | the brothers |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **accurs** | past · passive |  | Brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under earth=Location |

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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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