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title: The precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein stood in shadowy contrast a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein stood in shadowy contrast against the star-powdered blue, and seemed in the magical moonlight as if silvered. Who acts: precipitous wall. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 6

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The precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein stood in shadowy contrast against the star-powdered blue, and seemed in the magical moonlight as if silvered.

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**Who acts:** precipitous wall · **What happens:** stand, powder, seem, silver · **To what, where:** shadowy contrast, magical moonlight

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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 (precipitous wall), 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:pg74323:23:6
# text = The precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein stood in shadowy contrast against the star-powdered blue, and seemed in the magical moonlight as if silvered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sachsenstein	Sachsenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	silvered	silver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein |  |  | shadowy contrast |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in contrast=Location |
| 2 | **powder** | participle | the precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein *not said here* |  |  |  |  | star *compound*; blue *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  | the magical moonlight |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **silver** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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