--- title: When he opened them he found himself in a spacious hall, its stone w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: When he opened them he found himself in a spacious hall, its stone walls adorned with armour and arms, and on a massive oak table lay also arms, partly broken, partly covered with fresh blood. Who acts: Graumännchen. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/101/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/) / 101 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 101 When he opened them he found himself in a spacious hall, its stone walls adorned with armour and arms, and on a massive oak table lay also arms, partly broken, partly covered with fresh blood. **Who acts:** Graumännchen · **What happens:** open, find, adorn, lay, break, cover · **To what, where:** eyes, Graumännchen, spacious hall, stone walls, arms, massive oak table This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:7:101 # text = When he opened them he found himself in a spacious hall, its stone walls adorned with armour and arms, and on a massive oak table lay also arms, partly broken, partly covered with fresh blood. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 spacious spacious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 28 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 partly partly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 partly partly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | Graumännchen | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | | a spacious hall and ancestor's stone walls | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 3 | **adorn** | participle | | ancestor's stone walls *not said here* | | | | with armour and arms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with armour=Theme | | 4 | **lay** | present | | arms | | a massive oak table | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme on table=Destination | | 5 | **break** | participle | | | | | | partly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with fresh blood; partly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/102/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)