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title: In the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf Thale--pronounced Talé--is s… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf Thale--pronounced Talé--is still preserved a mysterious Wonderstone, which is said to protect the estate and family from misfortune. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 27

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In the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf Thale--pronounced Talé--is still preserved a mysterious Wonderstone, which is said to protect the estate and family from misfortune.

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**What happens:** pronounce, preserve, say, protect · **To what, where:** old Kloster, Talé, mysterious Wonderstone, estate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. 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:pg74323:3:27
# text = In the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf Thale--pronounced Talé--is still preserved a mysterious Wonderstone, which is said to protect the estate and family from misfortune.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wenthusen	Wenthusen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dorf	Dorf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Thale	Thale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Talé	Talé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Wonderstone	Wonderstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | past |  |  |  | the old Kloster of Wenthusen in Dorf |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in kloster=Manner |
| 2 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | Talé |  |  | still | a mysterious Wonderstone *obl* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a mysterious Wonderstone |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | the estate and family |  |  |  | from misfortune | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent estate=Beneficiary from misfortune=Theme |

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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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