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title: And the halls of his palace must remain for ever desolate. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And the halls of his palace must remain for ever desolate. Who acts: halls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 78

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And the halls of his palace must remain for ever desolate.

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**Who acts:** halls · **What happens:** remain, desolate

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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 (halls), 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:pg74323:11:78
# text = And the halls of his palace must remain for ever desolate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | must | the halls of king's palace |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | the halls of king's palace *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | 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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