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title: In former days the spot lay much more desolate than now; the old way… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In former days the spot lay much more desolate than now; the old ways and the delicious wood-paths had not been opened up. Who acts: former days. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 21

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In former days the spot lay much more desolate than now; the old ways and the delicious wood-paths had not been opened up.

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**Who acts:** former days · **What happens:** lay, desolate, not open up · **To what, where:** old ways

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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 (former days), 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:pg74323:6:21
# text = In former days the spot lay much more desolate than now; the old ways and the delicious wood-paths had not been opened up.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | former days |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | former days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **open up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old ways and the delicious wood paths |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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