--- title: Formerly his dwarf majesty was allowed to appear in the upper world… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Formerly his dwarf majesty was allowed to appear in the upper world every five hundred years, but he is no longer permitted to leave his subterranean abode. Who acts: dwarf majesty. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/48/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/) / 48 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 48 Formerly his dwarf majesty was allowed to appear in the upper world every five hundred years, but he is no longer permitted to leave his subterranean abode. **Who acts:** dwarf majesty · **What happens:** allow, appear, permit, leave · **To what, where:** dwarf majesty, upper world, Hibich, subterranean abode This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf majesty), 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:pg74323:25:48 # text = Formerly his dwarf majesty was allowed to appear in the upper world every five hundred years, but he is no longer permitted to leave his subterranean abode. 1 Formerly formerly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 21 no no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 subterranean subterranean NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | past · passive | | Hibich's dwarf majesty | | | | formerly *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **appear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hibich's dwarf majesty *not said here* | | | the upper world | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | | 3 | **permit** | present · passive | | Hibich | | | | long *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | Hibich's subterranean abode | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/49/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/)