--- title: Just then a door opened, and an old squire entered and said, "I left… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Just then a door opened, and an old squire entered and said, "I left you a moment to prepare an ointment for your wound, in order that you may yourself appear on the walls and defend the Schloss. Who acts: door, old squire, you, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, old squire, you, your), 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:pg74323:7:104 # text = Just then a door opened, and an old squire entered and said, "I left you a moment to prepare an ointment for your wound, in order that you may yourself appear on the walls and defend the Schloss. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 squire squire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 nsubj _ _ 35 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Schloss schloss NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | a door | | | | then | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **enter** | past | a old squire | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a door *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | a door *= door* | | you | order | moment | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in order=Location | | 5 | **prepare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a door *= door* *not said here* | a ointment | | | | for your wound | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ointment=Product for wound=Beneficiary | | 6 | **appear** *in a quote* | may | you | order *not said here* | | the walls | | yourself *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | | 7 | **defend** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Schloss | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schloss=Beneficiary | | 8 | **wound** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/105/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)