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title: The great plain north of the Harz mountains was not always the smili… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The great plain north of the Harz mountains was not always the smiling, fruitful tract of land the eye now beholds. Who acts: great plain north, eye. 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 e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 97

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The great plain north of the Harz mountains was not always the smiling, fruitful tract of land the eye now beholds.

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**Who acts:** great plain north, eye · **What happens:** not be, behold · **To what, where:** smiling, land

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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 (great plain north, eye), 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:pg74323:23:98
# text = The great plain north of the Harz mountains was not always the smiling, fruitful tract of land the eye now beholds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	smiling	smiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	beholds	behold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | the great plain north of the Harz mountains | the smiling and fruitful tract of land |  |  |  | fruitful tract of land *conj*; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | present | the eye | land *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |

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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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