--- title: Accordingly Alice made her way to the Staufenburg, and after watchin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Accordingly Alice made her way to the Staufenburg, and after watching from the thick woods three whole days she saw her mother, Magda, issue from a small postern door in the outer walls, so hidden by trees and underbrush as to be unseen when shut. Who acts: Alice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:20:1 # text = Accordingly Alice made her way to the Staufenburg, and after watching from the thick woods three whole days she saw her mother, Magda, issue from a small postern door in the outer walls, so hidden by trees and underbrush as to be unseen when shut. 1 Accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Staufenburg Staufenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Magda Magda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 issue issue NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 postern postern NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 underbrush underbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 cop _ _ 47 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ _ 48 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 49 advmod _ _ 49 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Alice | her *= she* | | | | to the Staufenburg; way *obl:unmarked*; accordingly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | the thick woods | day | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | Alice | Alice's mother and issue from a small postern door in the outer walls | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | | 4 | **hide** | participle | Alice *not said here* | | | | | by trees and underbrush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | unseen *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [A Historical Tale., part 2, 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/143/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/2/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/)