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title: This went on for years, and in all kings' houses princes wore wigs. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This went on for years, and in all kings' houses princes wore wigs. Who acts: This, princes. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, 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 12, sentence 57

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This went on for years, and in all kings' houses princes wore wigs.

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**Who acts:** This, princes · **What happens:** go on, wear · **To what, where:** wigs, houses

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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 (This, princes), 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:pg74323:13:57
# text = This went on for years, and in all kings' houses princes wore wigs.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	wigs	wig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | This |  |  |  | year |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | past | princes | wigs |  | all kings's houses |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=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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