--- title: Again, on a St. John's Day, the children of Steckelnberg played amon… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Again, on a St. John's Day, the children of Steckelnberg played among the ruins of the Lauenburg, when they saw again the wonderful flower, and heard the same soft voice, "Do not pluck me." Who acts: children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg74323:6:32 # text = Again, on a St. John's Day, the children of Steckelnberg played among the ruins of the Lauenburg, when they saw again the wonderful flower, and heard the same soft voice, "Do not pluck me." 1 Again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Steckelnberg Steckelnberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Lauenburg Lauenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | the children of Steckelnberg | | | | on a John St.'s Day; again | among the ruins of the Lauenburg | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | children *= child* | the wonderful flower | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | | 3 | **hear** | past | the children of Steckelnberg *not said here* | the same soft voice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **pluck** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | the children *= child* | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **ruin** | | | the Lauenburg | | | | | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/33/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/)