--- title: Broken walls of the grey, long-past centuries, on the wooded mountai… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Broken walls of the grey, long-past centuries, on the wooded mountains, a dilapidated tower, moats overgrown with wild thorns, a few dark and gloomy vaults, and half-fallen windows and arches--those are the small remains of the most magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains, the ruins --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/20/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/) / 20 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 20 Broken walls of the grey, long-past centuries, on the wooded mountains, a dilapidated tower, moats overgrown with wild thorns, a few dark and gloomy vaults, and half-fallen windows and arches--those are the small remains of the most magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains, the ruins of the ancient seat of the Counts-palatine, the Lauenburg. **Who acts:** those · **What happens:** wood, dilapidate, moat overgrown, fall, be, ruin · **To what, where:** small remains, Broken walls, ancient seat This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), 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:pg74323:6:20 # text = Broken walls of the grey, long-past centuries, on the wooded mountains, a dilapidated tower, moats overgrown with wild thorns, a few dark and gloomy vaults, and half-fallen windows and arches--those are the small remains of the most magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains, the ruins of the ancient seat of the Counts-palatine, the Lauenburg. 1 Broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wooded wood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dilapidated dilapidate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 moats moat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 overgrown overgrown ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 29 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 vaults vault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 50 advmod _ _ 50 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 nmod _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 Harz Harz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 Counts Count PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 70 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 palatine palatine NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 Lauenburg Lauenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wood** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dilapidate** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **moat overgrown** | present | | | | | | with wild thorns | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | half *compound* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | those | the small remains | | | | of the magnificent of the former castles of the Harz mountains | tree rules | | 7 | **ruin** | | | the ancient seat of palatine the Counts | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/21/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/)