---
title: An addition to the tower was not to be thought of, in consequence of… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: An addition to the tower was not to be thought of, in consequence of the small space on the mountain summit; and one evening, as he sat with his wife before the entrance to the Haarburg, and looked out on the beautiful landscape, he said to her, pointing toward the mountain where the present castle 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/57/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/) / 57

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 57

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An addition to the tower was not to be thought of, in consequence of the small space on the mountain summit; and one evening, as he sat with his wife before the entrance to the Haarburg, and looked out on the beautiful landscape, he said to her, pointing toward the mountain where the present castle stands:

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bodo, present castle · **What happens:** not think, sit, look out, say, point, stand · **To what, where:** addition, entrance, beautiful landscape, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Bodo, present castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:23:57
# text = An addition to the tower was not to be thought of, in consequence of the small space on the mountain summit; and one evening, as he sat with his wife before the entrance to the Haarburg, and looked out on the beautiful landscape, he said to her, pointing toward the mountain where the present castle stands:
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Haarburg	Haarburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
55	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	62	advmod	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | a addition to the tower |  |  | evening | of consequence of the small space on the mountain summit | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Bodo |  |  | the entrance |  | with Bodo's wife; to the Haarburg | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before entrance=Location |
| 3 | **look out** | past | Bodo *not said here* |  |  | the beautiful landscape |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bodo |  | wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **point** | gerund | Bodo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward the mountain | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stand** | present | the present castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/56/)
- next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/58/)
- ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/)