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title: In the valley of the Selke, that fair Undina of the Harz, near Alexi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the valley of the Selke, that fair Undina of the Harz, near Alexisbad, rises the majestic rock Mägdesprung; and opposite, on the other bank of the river, the Mägdetrappe, both of which are so famed in fable. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tal
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 16

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In the valley of the Selke, that fair Undina of the Harz, near Alexisbad, rises the majestic rock Mägdesprung; and opposite, on the other bank of the river, the Mägdetrappe, both of which are so famed in fable.

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**What happens:** rise, fame · **To what, where:** majestic rock, valley, both, fable

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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: 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:pg74323:10:16
# text = In the valley of the Selke, that fair Undina of the Harz, near Alexisbad, rises the majestic rock Mägdesprung; and opposite, on the other bank of the river, the Mägdetrappe, both of which are so famed in fable.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Selke	Selke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Undina	Undina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Alexisbad	Alexisbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	Mägdesprung	Mägdesprung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Mägdetrappe	Mägdetrappe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nmod	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present |  | the majestic rock |  | the valley of the Selke |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
| 2 | **fame** | present · passive |  | both |  | fable |  |  | tree rules |

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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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