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title: Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who was very fond of almonds, but was firmly resolved never to marry, so she invented the following plan. Who acts: Princess, Schloss. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 48

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Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who was very fond of almonds, but was firmly resolved never to marry, so she invented the following plan.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Schloss · **What happens:** live, be, resolve, not marry, invent, follow · **To what, where:** Schloss, following plan

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Schloss), 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:pg74323:13:48
# text = Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who was very fond of almonds, but was firmly resolved never to marry, so she invented the following plan.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Schloss	Schloss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Hohenstein	Hohenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a Princess |  |  | Schloss |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in schloss=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Schloss |  |  |  |  | of almonds; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | past · passive | a Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **marry** | to-infinitive | a Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **invent** | past | Princess | the following plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 6 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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