--- title: Their conversation turned on the beauties of Harz scenery, and its r… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Their conversation turned on the beauties of Harz scenery, and its romantic ruins, and the Countess remarked she had only the other day visited the Regenstein, and during the day had lost an object, to her of great value--a sketch-book, filled by her late husband, with the exception of the last sket --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/37/) [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/) / [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/) / 37 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 37 Their conversation turned on the beauties of Harz scenery, and its romantic ruins, and the Countess remarked she had only the other day visited the Regenstein, and during the day had lost an object, to her of great value--a sketch-book, filled by her late husband, with the exception of the last sketch, which she had herself sketched after his death. **Who acts:** conversation, Countess, other day, last sketch, eyes, husband · **What happens:** turn, remark, have, visit, lose, fill · **To what, where:** conversation, beauties, Regenstein, object, sketch book, last sketch This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, Countess, other day, last sketch), 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:pg74323:5:37 # text = Their conversation turned on the beauties of Harz scenery, and its romantic ruins, and the Countess remarked she had only the other day visited the Regenstein, and during the day had lost an object, to her of great value--a sketch-book, filled by her late husband, with the exception of the last sketch, which she had herself sketched after his death. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beauties beauty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Harz Harz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 scenery scenery NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 romantic romantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Countess Countess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 remarked remark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 visited visit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Regenstein Regenstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 during during ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 sketch sketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl _ _ 51 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 53 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 with with ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 exception exception NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 sketch sketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 64 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 66 obj _ _ 65 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 66 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 acl:relcl _ _ 67 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 66 obj _ _ 68 sketched sketch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 66 xcomp _ _ 69 after after ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | participle | | eyes's conversation and conversation's romantic ruins *not said here* | | the beauties of Harz scenery | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on beauty=Trajectory | | 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | eyes's conversation and conversation's romantic ruins | | | | | the Countess *nsubj* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | Countess | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **visit** | past | the other day | the Regenstein | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regenstein=Co-Agent | | 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | | a object | | | day | Countess's great value a sketch book *parataxis* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Eventuality | | 6 | **fill** | participle | | a sketch book *not said here* | | | | by Countess's late husband; with the exception of the last sketch | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with exception=Instrument | | 7 | **have** | past | Countess | the last sketch | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sketch** | participle | the last sketch *not said here* | | | | after husband's death | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **converse** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **ruin** | | conversation | | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **value** | | Countess | | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 12 | **except** | | | the last sketch | | | | | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 13 | **die** | | husband | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/38/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/)