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title: On a low mountain above the town stands Blankenburg[1] Schloss, whit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On a low mountain above the town stands Blankenburg[1] Schloss, white and shining in the summer's sun, and looks out on the vast plain, the Devil's Wall, and the mountains. 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 32

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On a low mountain above the town stands Blankenburg\[1\] Schloss, white and shining in the summer's sun, and looks out on the vast plain, the Devil's Wall, and the mountains.

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**What happens:** stand, shine, look out · **To what, where:** Blankenburg Schloss, low mountain, sun, vast plain

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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:pg74323:3:32
# text = On a low mountain above the town stands Blankenburg[1] Schloss, white and shining in the summer's sun, and looks out on the vast plain, the Devil's Wall, and the mountains.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Blankenburg	Blankenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | Blankenburg Schloss |  | a low mountain above the town |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  | the summer's sun |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
| 3 | **look out** | present |  |  |  | the vast plain  the Devil's Wall |  | the mountains *conj* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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