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title: But when night came on, and the moon and stars shone in a clear sky,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But when night came on, and the moon and stars shone in a clear sky, the door of the room opened suddenly in which Adam sat with his prisoners, and a troop of handsome dwarfs, neatly dressed, entered. Who acts: night, door, Adam. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laud
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 33

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But when night came on, and the moon and stars shone in a clear sky, the door of the room opened suddenly in which Adam sat with his prisoners, and a troop of handsome dwarfs, neatly dressed, entered.

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**Who acts:** night, door, Adam · **What happens:** come on, shine, open, sit, dress, enter · **To what, where:** moon, clear sky, troop, handsome dwarfs

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, door, Adam), 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:pg74323:23:33
# text = But when night came on, and the moon and stars shone in a clear sky, the door of the room opened suddenly in which Adam sat with his prisoners, and a troop of handsome dwarfs, neatly dressed, entered.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | the moon and stars |  | a clear sky |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | past | the door of the room | a troop of handsome dwarfs |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Adam |  |  |  |  | with Adam's prisoners; which *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | handsome dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **enter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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