--- title: Beautiful Ilse tarried a whole year in the richly adorned subterrane… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Beautiful Ilse tarried a whole year in the richly adorned subterranean world, witnessed the mysterious government, policy, and life of the fairies, the creations and destructions by the king of the giants, the hostile relations of the Fairy Queen to the Giant King, the unhappy loves of her children --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/11/) [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/) / 11 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 11 Beautiful Ilse tarried a whole year in the richly adorned subterranean world, witnessed the mysterious government, policy, and life of the fairies, the creations and destructions by the king of the giants, the hostile relations of the Fairy Queen to the Giant King, the unhappy loves of her children Rumar and Romar, and what she could not understand the amiable Queen explained to her, and introduced her fully to the fairy world. **Who acts:** Beautiful Ilse, unhappy, Ilse, amiable Queen · **What happens:** tarry, adorn, witness, love, not understand, explain · **To what, where:** life, adorned subterranean world, mysterious government, Giant King, Ilse, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Beautiful Ilse, unhappy, Ilse, amiable Queen), 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:pg74323:12:11 # text = Beautiful Ilse tarried a whole year in the richly adorned subterranean world, witnessed the mysterious government, policy, and life of the fairies, the creations and destructions by the king of the giants, the hostile relations of the Fairy Queen to the Giant King, the unhappy loves of her children Rumar and Romar, and what she could not understand the amiable Queen explained to her, and introduced her fully to the fairy world. 1 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Ilse Ilse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tarried tarry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 richly richly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 subterranean subterranean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 witnessed witness VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 policy policy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 creations creation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 destructions destruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 hostile hostile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 relations relation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 appos _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 nsubj _ _ 52 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 56 Rumar Rumar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 appos _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 Romar Romar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 61 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 65 obj _ _ 62 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 63 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 65 advmod _ _ 65 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 parataxis _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 amiable amiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 nsubj _ _ 69 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 ccomp _ _ 70 to to ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 73 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 74 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 75 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 obj _ _ 76 fully fully ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 77 to to ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 80 det _ _ 79 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 80 amod _ _ 80 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tarry** | past | Beautiful Ilse | life of the fairies and the creations and destructions by the king of the giants | | the adorned subterranean world | year | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in world=Location | | 2 | **adorn** | participle | | | | | | richly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **witness** | past | Beautiful Ilse *not said here* | the mysterious government and policy | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Beneficiary | | 4 | **love** | present | the unhappy | the Giant King *not said here* | | | | of Queen's children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **understand** | could | Ilse | | | | | what *obj* | tree rules | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the amiable Queen | | Ilse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 7 | **introduce** | past | | Queen | | | | to the fairy world; fully *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to world=Co-Patient | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/12/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/)