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title: That is the fortress whose magnificent position still delights us, a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: That is the fortress whose magnificent position still delights us, at whose ruins we gaze in amazement, in whose halls and chambers, almost entirely hewn in the rocks, we see the work of a far distant time, when comfort and luxury were unknown in this region. Who acts: That, magnificent position, we
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 37

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That is the fortress whose magnificent position still delights us, at whose ruins we gaze in amazement, in whose halls and chambers, almost entirely hewn in the rocks, we see the work of a far distant time, when comfort and luxury were unknown in this region.

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**Who acts:** That, magnificent position, we, comfort, distant time · **What happens:** be, delight, gaze, see, work · **To what, where:** fortress, us, work, region

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, magnificent position, we, comfort), 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:pg74323:4:37
# text = That is the fortress whose magnificent position still delights us, at whose ruins we gaze in amazement, in whose halls and chambers, almost entirely hewn in the rocks, we see the work of a far distant time, when comfort and luxury were unknown in this region.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	delights	delight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gaze	gaze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	hewn	hewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	48	mark	_	_
44	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	acl:relcl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | the fortress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **delight** | present | magnificent position | us |  |  | still |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **gaze** | present | we |  |  |  |  | in amazement; in halls and chambers; at ruins | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ruin=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | we | the work of a distant time |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | comfort and luxury |  |  | this region |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **work** |  | a distant time |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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