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title: A lovely spring morning dawned joyously over the castle of the Marsh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A lovely spring morning dawned joyously over the castle of the Marshal Adam von Trotta--or Troth--of Brandenburg, but sorrow housed within it, for the lady of the castle must die. Who acts: sorrow, lady. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., pa
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 74

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A lovely spring morning dawned joyously over the castle of the Marshal Adam von Trotta--or Troth--of Brandenburg, but sorrow housed within it, for the lady of the castle must die.

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**Who acts:** sorrow, lady · **What happens:** dawn, house, die · **To what, where:** lovely spring morning, castle, Troth

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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 (sorrow, lady), 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:pg74323:18:74
# text = A lovely spring morning dawned joyously over the castle of the Marshal Adam von Trotta--or Troth--of Brandenburg, but sorrow housed within it, for the lady of the castle must die.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	joyously	joyously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Marshal	Marshal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Trotta	Trotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Troth	Troth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Brandenburg	Brandenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	housed	house	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | participle |  | a lovely spring morning *not said here* |  | the castle of the Adam von Trotta |  | joyously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over castle=Location |
| 2 | **house** | past | sorrow | Troth  a lovely spring morning *not said here* |  |  |  | within Trotta; for the lady | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location troth=Value |
| 3 | **die** | must | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the castle | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of castle=Causer |

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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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