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title: The halls trodden by royalty, the boudoirs where Beauty ruled eight… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The halls trodden by royalty, the boudoirs where Beauty ruled eight hundred years ago, are fallen into green ruin; the death-owl hoots, and bats and lizards house among their overgrown stones. Who acts: Beauty. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Ta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 6

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The halls trodden by royalty, the boudoirs where Beauty ruled eight hundred years ago, are fallen into green ruin; the death-owl hoots, and bats and lizards house among their overgrown stones.

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**Who acts:** Beauty · **What happens:** tread, rule, fall · **To what, where:** halls, green ruin

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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 (Beauty), 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:pg74323:18:6
# text = The halls trodden by royalty, the boudoirs where Beauty ruled eight hundred years ago, are fallen into green ruin; the death-owl hoots, and bats and lizards house among their overgrown stones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
3	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boudoirs	boudoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hoots	hoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **tread** | participle |  | the halls *not said here* |  |  |  | by royalty | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by royalty=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rule** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | present · passive |  | the halls |  | green ruin |  | among beauties's overgrown stones; the owl hoots and bats and lizards's house *obj* | 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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