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title: The fame of this gold speedily spread, and it happened the Graf von… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The fame of this gold speedily spread, and it happened the Graf von Falkenstein himself visited the goldsmith, when by chance this gold was spoken of. Who acts: fame, it, Graf Falkenstein, chance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, w
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 101

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The fame of this gold speedily spread, and it happened the Graf von Falkenstein himself visited the goldsmith, when by chance this gold was spoken of.

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**Who acts:** fame, it, Graf Falkenstein, chance · **What happens:** spread, happen, visit, speak · **To what, where:** goldsmith, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (fame, it, Graf Falkenstein, chance), 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:pg74323:9:101
# text = The fame of this gold speedily spread, and it happened the Graf von Falkenstein himself visited the goldsmith, when by chance this gold was spoken of.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Graf	Graf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	13	flat	_	_
15	Falkenstein	Falkenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod	_	_
17	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the fame of this gold |  |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** | past | the Graf Falkenstein  fame | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive | chance | this gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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