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title: Soon after new eave-troughs were put on the gentleman's house, and t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after new eave-troughs were put on the gentleman's house, and the spoons were all found where the raven had hidden them. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, 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 5, sentence 25

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Soon after new eave-troughs were put on the gentleman's house, and the spoons were all found where the raven had hidden them.

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**What happens:** put, find, hide · **To what, where:** new eave troughs, house, spoons, raven

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:22:25
# text = Soon after new eave-troughs were put on the gentleman's house, and the spoons were all found where the raven had hidden them.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	eave	eave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	troughs	trough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | new eave troughs |  | the gentleman's house |  | soon *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on house=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | the spoons |  |  |  | all *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive |  | the raven |  |  |  | spoons *= spoon* *obj* | tree rules |

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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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