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title: The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were sitting thus, when Karl was summoned to join his regiment at the breaking out of the last war between France and Germany. Who acts: Countess, We. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 39

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The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were sitting thus, when Karl was summoned to join his regiment at the breaking out of the last war between France and Germany.

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**Who acts:** Countess, We · **What happens:** turn, remark, sit, summon, join · **To what, where:** arbour, Karl, regiment, breaking · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countess, We), 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:pg74323:5:39
# text = The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were sitting thus, when Karl was summoned to join his regiment at the breaking out of the last war between France and Germany.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remarking	remark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	Karl	Karl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Countess |  |  | the arbour |  | to the sketch | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to sketch=Source in arbour=Trajectory |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Countess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | past · progressive | We |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **summon** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Karl |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **join** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Karl's regiment |  | the breaking |  | out the last war between France and Germany | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regiment=Patient |

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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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