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title: In the days of the Crusades there dwelt here a fair maiden, the daug… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the days of the Crusades there dwelt here a fair maiden, the daughter of the Earl von Lauenburg, whose lover, Conrad von Regenstein, was a Crusader. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 59

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In the days of the Crusades there dwelt here a fair maiden, the daughter of the Earl von Lauenburg, whose lover, Conrad von Regenstein, was a Crusader.

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**What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** fair maiden, Crusader

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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: 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:pg74323:2:59
# text = In the days of the Crusades there dwelt here a fair maiden, the daughter of the Earl von Lauenburg, whose lover, Conrad von Regenstein, was a Crusader.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	15	nmod	_	_
20	Lauenburg	Lauenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Conrad	Conrad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	25	flat	_	_
27	Regenstein	Regenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Crusader	crusader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | participle |  | a fair maiden and the daughter of the Earl von and Conrad |  | there; here | day |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a Crusader |  |  |  |  | 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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