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title: As soon as this ladder was ready, and reached the top of the Hibiche… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as this ladder was ready, and reached the top of the Hibichenstein, a dwarf stood at each side and lighted the way. Who acts: ladder, dwarf. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 74

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As soon as this ladder was ready, and reached the top of the Hibichenstein, a dwarf stood at each side and lighted the way.

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**Who acts:** ladder, dwarf · **What happens:** be, reach, stand, light · **To what, where:** top, side, way

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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 (ladder, dwarf), 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:pg74323:25:74
# text = As soon as this ladder was ready, and reached the top of the Hibichenstein, a dwarf stood at each side and lighted the way.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hibichenstein	Hibichenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this ladder |  |  |  |  | ready, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | this ladder *not said here* | the top of the Hibichenstein |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a dwarf |  |  | each side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |
| 4 | **light** | participle | a dwarf *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |

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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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