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title: The fair Hildegard retired to the Brücken Kloster, where she died; a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The fair Hildegard retired to the Brücken Kloster, where she died; and still the maidens of Mühlhausen sing many a song of her beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the _Kirchweihfest_. Who acts: fair Hildegard, Virgin, maidens, beauty. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountain
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 33

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The fair Hildegard retired to the Brücken Kloster, where she died; and still the maidens of Mühlhausen sing many a song of her beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the \_Kirchweihfest\_.

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**Who acts:** fair Hildegard, Virgin, maidens, beauty · **What happens:** retire, die, sing, dance · **To what, where:** many song, Kirchweihfest

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair Hildegard, Virgin, maidens, beauty), 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:pg74323:15:33
# text = The fair Hildegard retired to the Brücken Kloster, where she died; and still the maidens of Mühlhausen sing many a song of her beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the _Kirchweihfest_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hildegard	Hildegard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Brücken	Brücken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mühlhausen	Mühlhausen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Kirchweihfest	Kirchweihfest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | past | the fair Hildegard |  |  |  |  | to the Brücken Kloster | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | Virgin |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the maidens of Mühlhausen | a many song of Virgin's beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the Kirchweihfest |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | Virgin's beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the Kirchweihfest |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **dance** |  |  | the Kirchweihfest |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=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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