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title: Then they entered through a great arched door into the mountain, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they entered through a great arched door into the mountain, and the King conducted him to a large room, where stood chairs and a table. Who acts: ladders, King. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 78

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Then they entered through a great arched door into the mountain, and the King conducted him to a large room, where stood chairs and a table.

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**Who acts:** ladders, King · **What happens:** enter, arch, conduct, stand · **To what, where:** great arched door, mountain, large room

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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 (ladders, King), 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:pg74323:25:78
# text = Then they entered through a great arched door into the mountain, and the King conducted him to a large room, where stood chairs and a table.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | ladders *= ladder* |  |  | a great arched door | then | into the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location into mountain=Destination |
| 2 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **conduct** | past | the King | mountain |  | a large room and stood chairs and a table |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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