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title: Gold, silver, and precious stones lay in colossal heaps on every sid… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Gold, silver, and precious stones lay in colossal heaps on every side, and the place sparkled and shone so, that even the anxious Schlosser's heart was filled with joy. Who acts: precious stones. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, wi
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 16

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Gold, silver, and precious stones lay in colossal heaps on every side, and the place sparkled and shone so, that even the anxious Schlosser's heart was filled with joy.

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**Who acts:** precious stones · **What happens:** lay, sparkle, shine, fill · **To what, where:** colossal heaps, place, Schlosser heart, Gold

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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 (precious stones), 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:pg74323:21:16
# text = Gold, silver, and precious stones lay in colossal heaps on every side, and the place sparkled and shone so, that even the anxious Schlosser's heart was filled with joy.
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Schlosser	Schlosser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **lay** | present | precious stones |  |  | colossal heaps on every side |  | the place *conj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination |
| 2 | **sparkle** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | Schlosser heart |  |  |  | with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument |

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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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