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title: Not till now were the dogs satisfied, but as the second chest was op… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Not till now were the dogs satisfied, but as the second chest was opened they hurried back to the flock, and displayed an unwonted zeal to fulfil their duty. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 77

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Not till now were the dogs satisfied, but as the second chest was opened they hurried back to the flock, and displayed an unwonted zeal to fulfil their duty.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** not be, open, hurry back, display, fulfil · **To what, where:** second chest, flock, unwonted zeal, duty

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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 (dogs), 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:pg74323:24:77
# text = Not till now were the dogs satisfied, but as the second chest was opened they hurried back to the flock, and displayed an unwonted zeal to fulfil their duty.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
2	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the dogs |  |  |  | now | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | the second chest |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hurry back** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  | the flock |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to flock=Destination |
| 4 | **display** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | a unwonted zeal |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zeal=Theme |
| 5 | **fulfil** | to-infinitive | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | dogs's duty |  |  |  |  | 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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