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title: Its position is fascinating, surrounded on three sides by high woode… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Its position is fascinating, surrounded on three sides by high wooded mountains, with a wide view open to the south, which was then probably partially shut out by the primeval dense forests, now, however, extending over the little mining town of Gittelde and the picturesque mountain landscape to Ost
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 3

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Its position is fascinating, surrounded on three sides by high wooded mountains, with a wide view open to the south, which was then probably partially shut out by the primeval dense forests, now, however, extending over the little mining town of Gittelde and the picturesque mountain landscape to Osterode and the high-seated Schloss Herzberg.

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**Who acts:** position, primeval dense forests · **What happens:** be, surround, wood, shut out, extend, seat · **To what, where:** three sides, wide view, little mining town

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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 (position, primeval dense forests), 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:pg74323:18:3
# text = Its position is fascinating, surrounded on three sides by high wooded mountains, with a wide view open to the south, which was then probably partially shut out by the primeval dense forests, now, however, extending over the little mining town of Gittelde and the picturesque mountain landscape to Osterode and the high-seated Schloss Herzberg.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	however	however	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Gittelde	Gittelde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Osterode	Osterode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
58	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
62	Herzberg	Herzberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | seat's position |  |  |  |  | fascinating *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  | three sides |  | by high wooded mountains; a wide view *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shut out** | past · passive | the primeval dense forests | a wide view |  |  | then | partially, probably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **extend** | gerund | the primeval dense forests *not said here* |  |  | the little mining town of Gittelde and the picturesque mountain landscape to Osterode and the seated Schloss | now | however *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over town=Path |
| 6 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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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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