Schematic view of the central part of the NGC 6334 filamentary cloud. The distribution is based on Herschel observationsby Russeil et al. (2013). The horizontal and vertical orientations correspond to the Galactic longitude and latitude coordinates. The sketch displays the hierarchical fragmentation seen in the cloud from the scale of the filament down to thescale of individual dense cores and protostars. The colours are scaled based on the density (from light blue to black). Inthis colour scheme, the lighter colours (e.g. blue) correspond to the lower densities, while the darker colours (e.g. violet and black) represent the dense regions. The ionised gas is shown with orange. The values of masses and sizes are based onthe observations presented in this work and from the literature (Brogan et al. 2016; Hunter et al. 2014).