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title: Deeper in among the mountains stood an old stone Schloss, on the gra… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Deeper in among the mountains stood an old stone Schloss, on the granite wall connecting the Ilsenstein and the opposite-lying Westerberg, which had been bought, and was inhabited by a father and his fair daughter Ilse. Who acts: Deeper, granite wall, father. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 103

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Deeper in among the mountains stood an old stone Schloss, on the granite wall connecting the Ilsenstein and the opposite-lying Westerberg, which had been bought, and was inhabited by a father and his fair daughter Ilse.

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**Who acts:** Deeper, granite wall, father · **What happens:** stand, connect, lie, buy, inhabit · **To what, where:** old stone Schloss, granite wall, Ilsenstein

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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 (Deeper, granite wall, father), 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:pg74323:12:104
# text = Deeper in among the mountains stood an old stone Schloss, on the granite wall connecting the Ilsenstein and the opposite-lying Westerberg, which had been bought, and was inhabited by a father and his fair daughter Ilse.
1	Deeper	Deeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Ilsenstein	Ilsenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	compound	_	_
24	Westerberg	Westerberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Deeper in the mountains | a old stone Schloss |  | the granite wall |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | the granite wall *not said here* | the Ilsenstein and the lying Westerberg |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilsenstein=Patient |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Ilsenstein and the lying Westerberg |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **inhabit** | past · passive | a father and Schloss's fair daughter |  |  |  |  |  | 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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