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title: With firmness the three went directly forward toward a second cave,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With firmness the three went directly forward toward a second cave, which was large and lofty, and lighted with a magical splendour. Who acts: three, second cave. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 7

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With firmness the three went directly forward toward a second cave, which was large and lofty, and lighted with a magical splendour.

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**Who acts:** three, second cave · **What happens:** go, be, light · **To what, where:** second cave

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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, second cave), 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:pg74323:21:7
# text = With firmness the three went directly forward toward a second cave, which was large and lofty, and lighted with a magical splendour.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	firmness	firmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the three |  |  | a second cave |  | with firmness; forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward cave=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a second cave |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a second cave *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **light** | participle | the three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a magical splendour | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with splendour=Material |

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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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