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title: On a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche, in Mühlhausen, ar… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche, in Mühlhausen, are three stone partridges, and I am about to explain to you how they came there. Who acts: I, Partridges. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 39

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On a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche, in Mühlhausen, are three stone partridges, and I am about to explain to you how they came there.

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**Who acts:** I, Partridges · **What happens:** fly, be, explain, come · **To what, where:** three stone partridges, flying buttress, you

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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 (I, Partridges), 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:pg74323:15:39
# text = On a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche, in Mühlhausen, are three stone partridges, and I am about to explain to you how they came there.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	buttress	buttress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Marienkirche	Marienkirche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mühlhausen	Mühlhausen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | three stone partridges |  | a flying buttress of the colossal Marienkirche |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | past | Partridges *= partridge* |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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