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title: Ernst hunted no more on the mountains, but stood dreaming on a high… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Ernst hunted no more on the mountains, but stood dreaming on a high spot whence he could see her father's castle. Who acts: Ernst. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 22

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Ernst hunted no more on the mountains, but stood dreaming on a high spot whence he could see her father's castle.

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**Who acts:** Ernst · **What happens:** hunt, stand, dream, see · **To what, where:** more, mountains, high spot, castle

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ernst), 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:pg74323:17:22
# text = Ernst hunted no more on the mountains, but stood dreaming on a high spot whence he could see her father's castle.
1	Ernst	Ernst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | Ernst | more |  | the mountains |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent more=Theme on mountain=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Ernst *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dream** | gerund | Ernst *not said here* |  |  | a high spot |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | could | Ernst | impression's father's castle |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |

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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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