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title: There sat Brunhilda in her glittering robes, the golden crown still… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat Brunhilda in her glittering robes, the golden crown still upon her head, her white veil and golden hair fluttering in the wind, in her fearless courage and queenly beauty, upon the snowy steed before the open gates. Who acts: white veil. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountai
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 29

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There sat Brunhilda in her glittering robes, the golden crown still upon her head, her white veil and golden hair fluttering in the wind, in her fearless courage and queenly beauty, upon the snowy steed before the open gates.

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**Who acts:** white veil · **What happens:** sit, flutter · **To what, where:** Brunhilda, glittering robes, wind

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (white veil), 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:pg74323:2:29
# text = There sat Brunhilda in her glittering robes, the golden crown still upon her head, her white veil and golden hair fluttering in the wind, in her fearless courage and queenly beauty, upon the snowy steed before the open gates.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Brunhilda	Brunhilda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | Brunhilda |  | Brunhilda's glittering robes and the golden crown; there | before the open gates; still | upon Brunhilda's head; Brunhilda's white veil and golden hair *conj*; Brunhilda's fearless courage and queenly beauty *parataxis*; the snowy steed *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent brunhilda=Theme in robe=Location |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund | Brunhilda's white veil and golden hair *not said here* |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=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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