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title: Meanwhile they arrived at the spot, the work began, and soon they ca… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile they arrived at the spot, the work began, and soon they came to a huge cauldron filled with Holland ducats, which it was necessary to raise. Who acts: masses, work, Holland ducats. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 100

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Meanwhile they arrived at the spot, the work began, and soon they came to a huge cauldron filled with Holland ducats, which it was necessary to raise.

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**Who acts:** masses, work, Holland ducats · **What happens:** arrive, begin, come, fill, be, raise · **To what, where:** spot, huge cauldron

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masses, work, Holland ducats), 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:pg74323:24:100
# text = Meanwhile they arrived at the spot, the work began, and soon they came to a huge cauldron filled with Holland ducats, which it was necessary to raise.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Holland	Holland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | masses *= mass* |  |  | the spot |  | meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the work |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | masses *= mass* |  |  | a huge cauldron |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cauldron=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  | a huge cauldron *not said here* |  |  |  | with Holland ducats | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ducat=Instrument |
| 5 | **is** | past | Holland ducats |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **raise** | to-infinitive | Holland ducats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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