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title: In an instant blue flame and cauldron had vanished! — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant blue flame and cauldron had vanished! 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 109

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In an instant blue flame and cauldron had vanished!

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**What happens:** vanish · **To what, where:** instant blue flame

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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: 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:pg74323:24:109
# text = In an instant blue flame and cauldron had vanished!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect |  |  |  | a instant blue flame and cauldron |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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