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title: Cracking, it sprang open, and a blood-red splendour shone forth in t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Cracking, it sprang open, and a blood-red splendour shone forth in the great space which they now entered. Who acts: two, cushions. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 15

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Cracking, it sprang open, and a blood-red splendour shone forth in the great space which they now entered.

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**Who acts:** two, cushions · **What happens:** crack, spring, shine, enter · **To what, where:** red splendour, great space

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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 (two, cushions), 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:pg74323:21:15
# text = Cracking, it sprang open, and a blood-red splendour shone forth in the great space which they now entered.
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | gerund | two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spring** | past | two | a red splendour |  |  |  | open *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | a red splendour *not said here* |  | the great space |  | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location |
| 4 | **enter** | past | cushions *= cushion* | the great space |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination |

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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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