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title: When they had gone through several dark, gloomy passages, they enter… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had gone through several dark, gloomy passages, they entered a wonderfully lighted chamber, in the centre of which stood a chest filled with gold and treasures, from which the maiden's companion, at her command, must take as many pieces of money as were sufficient for relief from his embar
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 90

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When they had gone through several dark, gloomy passages, they entered a wonderfully lighted chamber, in the centre of which stood a chest filled with gold and treasures, from which the maiden's companion, at her command, must take as many pieces of money as were sufficient for relief from his embarrassment.

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**Who acts:** caves, centre, maiden, sympathy · **What happens:** go, enter, light, stand, fill, take · **To what, where:** several dark gloomy passages, lighted chamber, chest, command, many pieces · **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 (caves, centre, maiden, sympathy), 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:pg74323:21:90
# text = When they had gone through several dark, gloomy passages, they entered a wonderfully lighted chamber, in the centre of which stood a chest filled with gold and treasures, from which the maiden's companion, at her command, must take as many pieces of money as were sufficient for relief from his embarrassment.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
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	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	advcl	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | caves *= cave* |  |  | several dark gloomy passages |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through passage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enter** | past | caves *= cave* | a lighted chamber |  |  |  | the centre *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
| 3 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the centre | a chest |  | maiden's command |  | the maiden's companion *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme at command=Destination |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  | a chest *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and treasures | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |
| 6 | **take** | must |  | many pieces of money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for relief from sympathy's embarrassment; sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **command** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **embarrass** |  | sympathy |  |  |  |  |  | nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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