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title: The workmen paused and listened, when lo! a carriage appeared drawn… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The workmen paused and listened, when lo! a carriage appeared drawn rapidly by four doves. Who acts: workmen, four doves. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, 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 7, sentence 102

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The workmen paused and listened, when lo! a carriage appeared drawn rapidly by four doves.

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**Who acts:** workmen, four doves · **What happens:** pause, listen, draw · **To what, where:** carriage

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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 (workmen, four doves), 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:pg74323:24:102
# text = The workmen paused and listened, when lo! a carriage appeared drawn rapidly by four doves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | the workmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | past | the workmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | past · passive | four doves | a carriage |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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