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title: Ages ago there ruled a king in Bohemia whose castle stood on a lofty… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Ages ago there ruled a king in Bohemia whose castle stood on a lofty mountain, where the thunder and the eagle found a home. Who acts: Ages, castle, thunder. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 4

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Ages ago there ruled a king in Bohemia whose castle stood on a lofty mountain, where the thunder and the eagle found a home.

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**Who acts:** Ages, castle, thunder · **What happens:** rule, stand, find · **To what, where:** king, Bohemia, home

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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 (Ages, castle, thunder), 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:pg74323:2:4
# text = Ages ago there ruled a king in Bohemia whose castle stood on a lofty mountain, where the thunder and the eagle found a home.
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bohemia	Bohemia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Ages | a king |  | there |  | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent king=Result |
| 2 | **stand** | past | castle |  |  | Bohemia |  | on a lofty mountain | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bohemia=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | the thunder and the eagle | a home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |

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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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