--- title: At midnight, when the moonlight rests on the rustling oaks, or the w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: At midnight, when the moonlight rests on the rustling oaks, or the winter snow glitters and winds howl, there rises a white form from the ruins of this robber Schloss, a wreath of flowers around the head, and in the girdle a bunch of keys. Who acts: moonlight, snow glitters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moonlight, snow glitters), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:10:124 # text = At midnight, when the moonlight rests on the rustling oaks, or the winter snow glitters and winds howl, there rises a white form from the ruins of this robber Schloss, a wreath of flowers around the head, and in the girdle a bunch of keys. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moonlight moonlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 oaks oak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 glitters glitter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Schloss schloss NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wreath wreath NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 around around ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | present | the moonlight | | | the rustling oaks | midnight | in the girdle | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on oak=Location | | 2 | **howl** | present | the snow glitters and winds | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rise** | present | the snow glitters and winds *not said here* | a white form | | the ruins of this robber Schloss; there | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient form=Extent from ruin=Initial\_State | | 4 | **ruin** | | | this robber Schloss | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/10/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/10/124/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/10/)