Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 100

Meanwhile they arrived at the spot, the work began, and soon they came to a huge cauldron filled with Holland ducats, which it was necessary to raise.

Who acts: masses, work, Holland ducats · What happens: arrive, begin, come, fill, be, raise · To what, where: spot, huge cauldron

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masses, work, Holland ducats), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 spot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spot	det
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 work	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 came	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 cauldron	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cauldron	det
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cauldron	amod
19	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 cauldron	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 ducats	case
22	Holland	Holland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ducats	compound
23	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 necessary	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 necessary	nsubj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 necessary	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 necessary	cop
28	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ducats	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 raise	mark
30	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 necessary	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	masses = mass		the spot	meanwhile property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the work				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	come	past	masses = mass		a huge cauldron	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cauldron=Initial_Location
4	fill	participle		a huge cauldron not said here		with Holland ducats	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ducat=Instrument
5	is	past	Holland ducats			necessary property	tree rules
6	raise	to-infinitive	Holland ducats not said here				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 100