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title: Listen, then: when the bells ring midnight, leave thy cottage, and c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Listen, then: when the bells ring midnight, leave thy cottage, and climb the mountain in silence to the ruins of Burg Osterode. Who acts: you, bells. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 104

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Listen, then: when the bells ring midnight, leave thy cottage, and climb the mountain in silence to the ruins of Burg Osterode.

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**Who acts:** you, bells · **What happens:** listen, ring, leave, climb, ruin · **To what, where:** cottage, mountain, Burg

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bells), 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:pg74323:10:105
# text = Listen, then: when the bells ring midnight, leave thy cottage, and climb the mountain in silence to the ruins of Burg Osterode.
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Burg	Burg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Osterode	Osterode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ring** | present | the bells |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | the bells *not said here* | thy cottage |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
| 4 | **climb** | infinitive | the bells *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  | to the ruins of Burg *result*; in silence | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent in silence=Attribute to ruin=Result |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | Burg |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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