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title: As he climbed the Burgweg--castle road--it seemed to him that the to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: As he climbed the Burgweg--castle road--it seemed to him that the tops of the beeches sighed mournfully. Who acts: sympathy, it, tops. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 97

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As he climbed the Burgweg--castle road--it seemed to him that the tops of the beeches sighed mournfully.

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**Who acts:** sympathy, it, tops · **What happens:** climb, seem, sigh · **To what, where:** Burgweg, sympathy

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sympathy, it, tops), 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:pg74323:21:97
# text = As he climbed the Burgweg--castle road--it seemed to him that the tops of the beeches sighed mournfully.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Burgweg	Burgweg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | sympathy | the Burgweg |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location burgweg=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | sympathy |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sigh** | past | the tops of the beeches |  |  |  |  | mournfully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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