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title: A captured maiden had been imprisoned here, and had sat long in the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A captured maiden had been imprisoned here, and had sat long in the darkness of constant night, hearing no sound save that of the raging storms that beat against the rocks. Who acts: raging storms. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 52

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A captured maiden had been imprisoned here, and had sat long in the darkness of constant night, hearing no sound save that of the raging storms that beat against the rocks.

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**Who acts:** raging storms · **What happens:** capture, imprison, sit, hear, rage, beat · **To what, where:** captured maiden, darkness, sound, rocks

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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 (raging storms), 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:pg74323:4:52
# text = A captured maiden had been imprisoned here, and had sat long in the darkness of constant night, hearing no sound save that of the raging storms that beat against the rocks.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	save	save	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **imprison** | past · perfect · passive |  | a captured maiden |  | here |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the darkness of constant night |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund |  | no sound |  |  |  | save that of the raging storms | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **beat** | present | the raging storms |  |  | the rocks |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location |

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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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