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title: In the centre of this superb chamber stood a table of hematite; befo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre of this superb chamber stood a table of hematite; before it a silver chair, upon which the Dwarf-King seated himself, and commanded his companion also to sit down. Who acts: Dwarf King. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 81

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In the centre of this superb chamber stood a table of hematite; before it a silver chair, upon which the Dwarf-King seated himself, and commanded his companion also to sit down.

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**Who acts:** Dwarf King · **What happens:** stand, seat, command, sit down · **To what, where:** table, centre, king, companion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dwarf 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:pg74323:25:81
# text = In the centre of this superb chamber stood a table of hematite; before it a silver chair, upon which the Dwarf-King seated himself, and commanded his companion also to sit down.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hematite	hematite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a table of hematite |  | the centre of this superb chamber | before a silver chair  table |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in centre=Destination |
| 2 | **seat** | past | the Dwarf King | king |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 3 | **command** | past |  | king's companion |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent companion=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sit down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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