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title: Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by hands, are the remains of the Teufelsmühle. Who acts: Two huge granite boulders, hands. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 16

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Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by hands, are the remains of the Teufelsmühle.

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**Who acts:** Two huge granite boulders, hands · **What happens:** lie, place, be · **To what, where:** boulders, remains

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two huge granite boulders, hands), 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:pg74323:11:16
# text = Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by hands, are the remains of the Teufelsmühle.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Teufelsmühle	Teufelsmühle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | Two huge granite boulders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | hands | boulders *= boulder* |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Two huge granite boulders | the remains |  |  |  | of the Teufelsmühle | 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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