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title: They conversed long on the subject, and only separated as darkness b… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They conversed long on the subject, and only separated as darkness began to settle over the vales and mountains, and the benevolent Luna hung out her silver lamp. Who acts: castles, darkness, benevolent Luna. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 63

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They conversed long on the subject, and only separated as darkness began to settle over the vales and mountains, and the benevolent Luna hung out her silver lamp.

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**Who acts:** castles, darkness, benevolent Luna · **What happens:** converse, separate, begin, settle, hang out · **To what, where:** subject, vales, silver lamp

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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 (castles, darkness, benevolent Luna), 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:pg74323:23:63
# text = They conversed long on the subject, and only separated as darkness began to settle over the vales and mountains, and the benevolent Luna hung out her silver lamp.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conversed	converse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vales	vale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Luna	Luna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **converse** *speech: other* | past | castles *= castle* |  |  | the subject |  | long *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | darkness |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **settle** | to-infinitive | darkness *not said here* |  |  | the vales and mountains |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang out** | past | the benevolent Luna | Luna's silver lamp |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=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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