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title: On one of the border mountains, on the western slopes of the Harz, i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On one of the border mountains, on the western slopes of the Harz, in gloomy desolation, rise the grey ruins of the old Schloss Staufenburg, which still remind us of a most romantic though sad history. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Histori
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 1

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On one of the border mountains, on the western slopes of the Harz, in gloomy desolation, rise the grey ruins of the old Schloss Staufenburg, which still remind us of a most romantic though sad history.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** rise, remind, ruin · **To what, where:** grey ruins, western slopes, old Schloss, us

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg74323:18:1
# text = On one of the border mountains, on the western slopes of the Harz, in gloomy desolation, rise the grey ruins of the old Schloss Staufenburg, which still remind us of a most romantic though sad history.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
20	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | infinitive | one of the border mountains | the grey ruins of the old Schloss |  | the western slopes of the Harz |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruin=Theme |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | one of the border mountains *not said here* | the old Schloss | us |  | still | of a romantic  sad history | tree rules |
| 3 | **ruin** |  |  | the old Schloss |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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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