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title: The report of a Goldfeuer[1] in the Sieberthal soon spread, and many… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The report of a Goldfeuer[1] in the Sieberthal soon spread, and many saw the flame, but no one was bold enough to attempt to gain the treasure. Who acts: report, many, one. 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 92

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The report of a Goldfeuer\[1\] in the Sieberthal soon spread, and many saw the flame, but no one was bold enough to attempt to gain the treasure.

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**Who acts:** report, many, one · **What happens:** spread, see, be, attempt, gain, report · **To what, where:** flame, treasure, Goldfeuer

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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 (report, many, one), 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:pg74323:24:92
# text = The report of a Goldfeuer[1] in the Sieberthal soon spread, and many saw the flame, but no one was bold enough to attempt to gain the treasure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Goldfeuer	Goldfeuer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sieberthal	Sieberthal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the report of a Goldfeuer in the Sieberthal |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | many | the flame |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flame=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | bold, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **gain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the treasure |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 6 | **report** |  |  | a Goldfeuer in the Sieberthal |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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