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title: There, above the tower, rose amid the slender grass, in wonderful be… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There, above the tower, rose amid the slender grass, in wonderful beauty, white as a lily and as graceful, the Flower of the Lauenburg, which had just been the subject of their conversation and their dreams. Who acts: wonderful beauty, beauty, conversation. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Ha
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 54

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There, above the tower, rose amid the slender grass, in wonderful beauty, white as a lily and as graceful, the Flower of the Lauenburg, which had just been the subject of their conversation and their dreams.

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**Who acts:** wonderful beauty, beauty, conversation · **What happens:** rise, be, converse, dream · **To what, where:** tower, subject

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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 (wonderful beauty, beauty, conversation), 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:pg74323:6:54
# text = There, above the tower, rose amid the slender grass, in wonderful beauty, white as a lily and as graceful, the Flower of the Lauenburg, which had just been the subject of their conversation and their dreams.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lauenburg	Lauenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | the tower; there |  | amid the slender grass; in wonderful beauty and the Flower of the Lauenburg and the subject | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above tower=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | wonderful beauty and the Flower of the Lauenburg and the subject | the subject |  |  |  | of beauty's conversation and conversation's dreams | tree rules |
| 3 | **converse** |  | beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **dream** |  | conversation |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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