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title: The others ran to him, and lo! there stood on the edge of the tower… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The others ran to him, and lo! there stood on the edge of the tower walls, then rising only the height of a man from the _débris_, a wonderful flower, the like of which the children had never seen before. Who acts: others. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Leg
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 25

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The others ran to him, and lo! there stood on the edge of the tower walls, then rising only the height of a man from the \_débris\_, a wonderful flower, the like of which the children had never seen before.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** run, stand, rise, not see · **To what, where:** wonderful flower, John, edge, height, children

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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:pg74323:6:25
# text = The others ran to him, and lo! there stood on the edge of the tower walls, then rising only the height of a man from the _débris_, a wonderful flower, the like of which the children had never seen before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	débris	débris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
47	before	before	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the others | a wonderful flower | John |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the others *not said here* |  |  | the edge of the tower walls; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the others *not said here* | the height of a man from the débris |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the children |  |  |  | which *obl*; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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