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title: On the spot where the few houses forming Dorf Neuhof now stand lay,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On the spot where the few houses forming Dorf Neuhof now stand lay, centuries ago, a farmhouse built of stone and ornamented with oddly-twisted chimneys. Who acts: few houses. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 85

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On the spot where the few houses forming Dorf Neuhof now stand lay, centuries ago, a farmhouse built of stone and ornamented with oddly-twisted chimneys.

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**Who acts:** few houses · **What happens:** form, stand, lay, build, ornament · **To what, where:** Dorf, spot, farmhouse

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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 (few houses), 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:pg74323:22:85
# text = On the spot where the few houses forming Dorf Neuhof now stand lay, centuries ago, a farmhouse built of stone and ornamented with oddly-twisted chimneys.
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	12	obl	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	Dorf	Dorf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Neuhof	Neuhof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	oddly	oddly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | gerund | the few houses *not said here* | Dorf |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dorf=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the few houses |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | the few houses *not said here* | a farmhouse |  |  | century | ago *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a farmhouse *not said here* |  |  |  | of stone | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with twisted chimneys | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chimney=Theme |

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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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