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title: After long speculation he discovered the cause, sprang up joyfully,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After long speculation he discovered the cause, sprang up joyfully, worked day and night, and soon the bell stood without a flaw before the youth's delighted eyes. Who acts: Stolberg, bell. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 53

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After long speculation he discovered the cause, sprang up joyfully, worked day and night, and soon the bell stood without a flaw before the youth's delighted eyes.

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**Who acts:** Stolberg, bell · **What happens:** discover, sprang up, work, stand · **To what, where:** cause, delighted eyes

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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 (Stolberg, bell), 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:pg74323:21:53
# text = After long speculation he discovered the cause, sprang up joyfully, worked day and night, and soon the bell stood without a flaw before the youth's delighted eyes.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	speculation	speculation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sprang	sprang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	flaw	flaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | Stolberg | the cause |  |  | after long speculation |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 2 | **sprang up** | infinitive | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | past | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the bell |  |  | the youth's delighted eyes |  | without a flaw; soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=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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