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title: For centuries the occupants of the Haarburg felt themselves happy in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: For centuries the occupants of the Haarburg felt themselves happy in the grey giant tower, until a Graf Bodo dwelt in it. Who acts: occupants, Graf Bodo. 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 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 55

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For centuries the occupants of the Haarburg felt themselves happy in the grey giant tower, until a Graf Bodo dwelt in it.

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**Who acts:** occupants, Graf Bodo · **What happens:** feel, dwell · **To what, where:** occupants, grey giant tower, tower

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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 (occupants, Graf Bodo), 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:pg74323:23:55
# text = For centuries the occupants of the Haarburg felt themselves happy in the grey giant tower, until a Graf Bodo dwelt in it.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	occupants	occupant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Haarburg	Haarburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Graf	Graf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Bodo	Bodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the occupants of the Haarburg | occupants *= occupant* |  | the grey giant tower | century | happy *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in tower=Location |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | a Graf Bodo |  |  | tower |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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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