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title: Arrived there, she could at first find none, but directly the cones… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Arrived there, she could at first find none, but directly the cones began to fall in showers from the trees, not striking her, however, but all falling into the basket. Who acts: Grund, cones. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 54

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Arrived there, she could at first find none, but directly the cones began to fall in showers from the trees, not striking her, however, but all falling into the basket.

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**Who acts:** Grund, cones · **What happens:** arrive, find, begin, fall, not strike · **To what, where:** none, showers, Grund, basket

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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 (Grund, cones), 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:pg74323:25:54
# text = Arrived there, she could at first find none, but directly the cones began to fall in showers from the trees, not striking her, however, but all falling into the basket.
1	Arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	however	however	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | could | Grund | none |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the cones |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the cones *not said here* |  |  | showers |  | from the trees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |
| 5 | **not** **strike** | gerund | the cones *not said here* | Grund |  |  |  | however *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument |
| 6 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the basket *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basket=Result |

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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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