--- title: They went through it, and saw themselves surrounded by a dim twiligh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: They went through it, and saw themselves surrounded by a dim twilight, since the openings in the arch ceiling were insufficient to light the interior, and the slender arched windows were so overgrown with ivy and other plants that they stood in a green night. Who acts: curiosity, openings, slender, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/68/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/) / 68 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 68 They went through it, and saw themselves surrounded by a dim twilight, since the openings in the arch ceiling were insufficient to light the interior, and the slender arched windows were so overgrown with ivy and other plants that they stood in a green night. **Who acts:** curiosity, openings, slender, other plants · **What happens:** go, see, surround, be, light, arch · **To what, where:** side, curiosity, interior, windows, slender 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: who acts (curiosity, openings, slender, other plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:24:68 # text = They went through it, and saw themselves surrounded by a dim twilight, since the openings in the arch ceiling were insufficient to light the interior, and the slender arched windows were so overgrown with ivy and other plants that they stood in a green night. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 since since SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 openings opening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 arch arch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 insufficient insufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 csubj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 interior interior NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 slender slender NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 arched arch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 overgrown overgrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 ivy ivy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | curiosity | | | side | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **see** | past | | curiosity | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **surround** | participle | curiosity *not said here* | | | | | a dim twilight *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the openings in the arch ceiling | | | | | insufficient *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **light** | to-infinitive | | the interior | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interior=Product | | 6 | **arch** | participle | the slender *not said here* | windows | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | | 7 | **overgrow** | past · passive | | the slender | | | | with ivy and other plants | tree rules | | 8 | **stand** | past | other plants | | | | night | curiosity *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/69/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/24/)