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title: The picturesque ruin contrasted wonderfully in its dark grey masses… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The picturesque ruin contrasted wonderfully in its dark grey masses with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight. Who acts: picturesque ruin. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 114

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The picturesque ruin contrasted wonderfully in its dark grey masses with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight.

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**Who acts:** picturesque ruin · **What happens:** contrast, mass · **To what, where:** picturesque ruin, dark grey

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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 (picturesque ruin), 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:pg74323:10:115
# text = The picturesque ruin contrasted wonderfully in its dark grey masses with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	contrasted	contrast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	masses	mass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cloudless	cloudless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contrast** | participle |  | the picturesque ruin *not said here* |  | vision's dark grey |  | wonderfully *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mass** | present | the picturesque ruin |  |  |  |  | with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight | vn shake-22.3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with blue=Co-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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