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title: In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the people of Lautenthal money, and also gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms. Who acts: three dwarfs. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 36

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In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the people of Lautenthal money, and also gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms.

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**Who acts:** three dwarfs · **What happens:** dwell, lend · **To what, where:** cave, people

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three dwarfs), 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:pg74323:25:36
# text = In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the people of Lautenthal money, and also gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Lautenthal	Lautenthal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	baptisms	baptism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | participle |  | the cave and gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lend** | past | three dwarfs | the people of Lautenthal money |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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