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title: At last one of the surveyors of the mines remarked how wonderful it… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one of the surveyors of the mines remarked how wonderful it was that many pebbles possessed such brilliant colours, and it was to be regretted that they faded in a few days. Who acts: many pebbles, colours. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 127

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At last one of the surveyors of the mines remarked how wonderful it was that many pebbles possessed such brilliant colours, and it was to be regretted that they faded in a few days.

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**Who acts:** many pebbles, colours · **What happens:** remark, possess, be, fade · **To what, where:** mines, such brilliant colours, many pebbles

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many pebbles, colours), 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:pg74323:14:128
# text = At last one of the surveyors of the mines remarked how wonderful it was that many pebbles possessed such brilliant colours, and it was to be regretted that they faded in a few days.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	surveyors	surveyor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
18	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	regretted	regret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the mines *not said here* |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **possess** | participle | many pebbles *not said here* | such brilliant colours |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · passive |  | many pebbles |  |  |  | at last one of the surveyors of the mines; astonishment *nsubj:pass*; regret *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fade** | past | colours *= colour* |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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