--- title: At a time when very few men lived upon the earth, when towns and vil… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: At a time when very few men lived upon the earth, when towns and villages were few and very widely separated, when there were no roads in the mountains, and before Romulus and Remus were rescued by the motherly wolf on the yellow Tiber, or Nausikaa fell in love with Odysseus, there stood a house on --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/) / 102 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 102 At a time when very few men lived upon the earth, when towns and villages were few and very widely separated, when there were no roads in the mountains, and before Romulus and Remus were rescued by the motherly wolf on the yellow Tiber, or Nausikaa fell in love with Odysseus, there stood a house on the site of Schloss Ilsenburg, inhabited by a widow and her daughter Trude. **Who acts:** few men, towns, roads, motherly wolf, Nausikaa · **What happens:** live, be, separate, rescue, fall, stand · **To what, where:** earth, Romulus, yellow Tiber, love, house, site This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few men, towns, roads, motherly wolf), 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:pg74323:12:103 # text = At a time when very few men lived upon the earth, when towns and villages were few and very widely separated, when there were no roads in the mountains, and before Romulus and Remus were rescued by the motherly wolf on the yellow Tiber, or Nausikaa fell in love with Odysseus, there stood a house on the site of Schloss Ilsenburg, inhabited by a widow and her daughter Trude. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 14 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 widely widely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Romulus Romulus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 motherly motherly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Tiber Tiber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 Nausikaa Nausikaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 Odysseus Odysseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 58 expl _ _ 58 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 on on ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 Schloss Schloss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 66 Ilsenburg Ilsenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 68 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 conj _ _ 69 by by ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obl _ _ 72 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 73 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 74 nmod:poss _ _ 74 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 conj _ _ 75 Trude Trude PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | few men | | | the earth | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | towns and villages | | | | | few *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **separate** | participle | towns and villages *not said here* | | | | | widely *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **be** | past | no roads in the mountains | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rescue** | past · passive | the motherly wolf | Romulus and Remus | | the yellow Tiber | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | Nausikaa | | | love | | with Odysseus | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 7 | **stand** | past | few men *not said here* | a house | | the site of Schloss; there | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on site=Destination | | 8 | **inhabit** | participle | few men *not said here* | | | | | by a widow and Nausikaa's daughter | tree rules | 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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/103/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/)