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title: On the spot now covered by the Tanzteich once stood a stately Schlos… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On the spot now covered by the Tanzteich once stood a stately Schloss with lofty walls and battlements. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, 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 5, sentence 63

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On the spot now covered by the Tanzteich once stood a stately Schloss with lofty walls and battlements.

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**What happens:** cover, stand · **To what, where:** spot, stately Schloss

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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: 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:pg74323:22:63
# text = On the spot now covered by the Tanzteich once stood a stately Schloss with lofty walls and battlements.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tanzteich	Tanzteich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | the spot *not said here* |  |  | now | by the Tanzteich | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a stately Schloss |  | the spot |  | with lofty walls and battlements; once *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme on spot=Destination |

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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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