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title: The following day the villagers who had gone to gather sticks found… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The following day the villagers who had gone to gather sticks found a vault broken in, and a half-rotten chest open, but empty, and on the ground around lay scattered gold and silver coins with an unknown stamp. Who acts: villagers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 136

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The following day the villagers who had gone to gather sticks found a vault broken in, and a half-rotten chest open, but empty, and on the ground around lay scattered gold and silver coins with an unknown stamp.

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**Who acts:** villagers · **What happens:** follow, go, gather, find, break in, lie · **To what, where:** sticks, vault, scattered gold, ground

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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 (villagers), 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:pg74323:7:136
# text = The following day the villagers who had gone to gather sticks found a vault broken in, and a half-rotten chest open, but empty, and on the ground around lay scattered gold and silver coins with an unknown stamp.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	around	around	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
35	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	36	amod	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the villagers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | the villagers *not said here* | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | the villagers | a vault |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Topic |
| 5 | **break in** | participle |  | a vault *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lie** | past | the villagers *not said here* | scattered gold and silver coins |  | the ground |  | with a unknown stamp; around *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |

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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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