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title: On the Hohegeissberg, near the river Zorge, the White Maiden of the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On the Hohegeissberg, near the river Zorge, the White Maiden of the Staufenburg[1] is seen every seven years with a bunch of keys. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 113

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On the Hohegeissberg, near the river Zorge, the White Maiden of the Staufenburg\[1\] is seen every seven years with a bunch of keys.

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**What happens:** see · **To what, where:** White Maiden, Hohegeissberg

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:24:113
# text = On the Hohegeissberg, near the river Zorge, the White Maiden of the Staufenburg[1] is seen every seven years with a bunch of keys.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hohegeissberg	Hohegeissberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Zorge	Zorge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | the White Maiden of the Staufenburg |  | the Hohegeissberg and the river Zorge | year | with a bunch of keys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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