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title: He mounted the stone stairway, and reached the ball-room, where knig… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He mounted the stone stairway, and reached the ball-room, where knights and ladies whirled in the dance regardless of the storm. Who acts: darkness. 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 ev
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 74

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He mounted the stone stairway, and reached the ball-room, where knights and ladies whirled in the dance regardless of the storm.

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**Who acts:** darkness · **What happens:** mount, reach, whirl · **To what, where:** stone stairway, ball room, knights, dance

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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 (darkness), 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:pg74323:22:74
# text = He mounted the stone stairway, and reached the ball-room, where knights and ladies whirled in the dance regardless of the storm.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stairway	stairway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	regardless	regardless	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | darkness | the stone stairway |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stairway=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | darkness *not said here* | the ball room |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 3 | **whirl** | participle · passive |  | knights and ladies |  | the dance |  | of the storm | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dance=Source of storm=Trajectory |

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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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