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title: Once a robber from the Thuringian Forest lived here in a cave with a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Once a robber from the Thuringian Forest lived here in a cave with a wild woman; they were clothed with moss and the branches of fir-trees. Who acts: robber. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 39

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Once a robber from the Thuringian Forest lived here in a cave with a wild woman; they were clothed with moss and the branches of fir-trees.

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**Who acts:** robber · **What happens:** live, clothe · **To what, where:** cave, traditions

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber), 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:pg74323:22:39
# text = Once a robber from the Thuringian Forest lived here in a cave with a wild woman; they were clothed with moss and the branches of fir-trees.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Thuringian	Thuringian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a robber from the Thuringian Forest |  |  | a cave with a wild woman; here |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 2 | **clothe** | past · passive |  | traditions *= tradition* |  |  |  | with moss; the branches of fir trees *conj* | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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