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title: He wears the imperial mantle, and the knightly forms of his old cour… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He wears the imperial mantle, and the knightly forms of his old courtiers, like spectres, come forth from their rocky chambers and place upon his aged uncovered head the oldest crown of Germany glittering with diamonds. Who acts: tradition, knightly forms, oldest crown. A sentence of «Legends and ta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 44

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He wears the imperial mantle, and the knightly forms of his old courtiers, like spectres, come forth from their rocky chambers and place upon his aged uncovered head the oldest crown of Germany glittering with diamonds.

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**Who acts:** tradition, knightly forms, oldest crown · **What happens:** wear, come, glitter, form, crown · **To what, where:** imperial mantle, rocky chambers, old courtiers, Germany

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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 (tradition, knightly forms, oldest crown), 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:pg74323:10:44
# text = He wears the imperial mantle, and the knightly forms of his old courtiers, like spectres, come forth from their rocky chambers and place upon his aged uncovered head the oldest crown of Germany glittering with diamonds.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spectres	spectre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	uncovered	uncovered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | tradition | the imperial mantle |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source |
| 2 | **come** | present | the knightly forms of tradition's old courtiers and spectres |  |  | forms's rocky chambers and place |  | upon tradition's aged uncovered head; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **glitter** | gerund | the oldest crown of Germany *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | tradition's old courtiers and spectres |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | Germany |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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