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title: But the mountain on which the present Schloss Wernigerode stands was… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mountain on which the present Schloss Wernigerode stands was adorned only with the primeval forest. Who acts: present Schloss. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, 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 6, sentence 54

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But the mountain on which the present Schloss Wernigerode stands was adorned only with the primeval forest.

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**Who acts:** present Schloss · **What happens:** stand, adorn · **To what, where:** mountain

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present Schloss), 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:pg74323:23:54
# text = But the mountain on which the present Schloss Wernigerode stands was adorned only with the primeval forest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Wernigerode	Wernigerode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the present Schloss |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 2 | **adorn** | past · passive |  | the mountain |  |  |  | with the primeval forest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=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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