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title: Centuries ago a stately castle stood on the spot, in which there was… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Centuries ago a stately castle stood on the spot, in which there was always much drinking, gambling and wild merriment. Who acts: Centuries. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 69

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Centuries ago a stately castle stood on the spot, in which there was always much drinking, gambling and wild merriment.

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**Who acts:** Centuries · **What happens:** stand, be · **To what, where:** spot, much drinking

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Centuries), 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:pg74323:16:70
# text = Centuries ago a stately castle stood on the spot, in which there was always much drinking, gambling and wild merriment.
1	Centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Centuries |  |  | the spot |  | a stately castle *nsubj*; ago *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | much drinking and gambling and wild merriment |  |  | always | gambling and wild merriment *conj* | tree rules |

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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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