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title: But whether it was that he had left out a word, or was not earnest a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But whether it was that he had left out a word, or was not earnest and devotional enough, the castle and its enclosing walls stood immovable. Who acts: earnest. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 63

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But whether it was that he had left out a word, or was not earnest and devotional enough, the castle and its enclosing walls stood immovable.

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**Who acts:** earnest · **What happens:** leave out, not be, be, stand · **To what, where:** leave

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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 (earnest), 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:pg74323:15:63
# text = But whether it was that he had left out a word, or was not earnest and devotional enough, the castle and its enclosing walls stood immovable.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	devotional	devotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	enclosing	enclosing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	immovable	immovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | past · perfect · passive |  | leave |  |  |  | One *nsubj*; a word *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | earn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | earnest |  |  |  |  | the castle and leave's enclosing walls *nsubj*; immovable *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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