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title: Long centuries ago a peculiar appearance attracted the attention of… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Long centuries ago a peculiar appearance attracted the attention of the inhabitants of Dorf Treseburg. Who acts: peculiar appearance, inhabitants. 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 ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 64

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Long centuries ago a peculiar appearance attracted the attention of the inhabitants of Dorf Treseburg.

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**Who acts:** peculiar appearance, inhabitants · **What happens:** attract, attend · **To what, where:** attention

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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 (peculiar appearance, inhabitants), 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:pg74323:6:64
# text = Long centuries ago a peculiar appearance attracted the attention of the inhabitants of Dorf Treseburg.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dorf	Dorf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past | a peculiar appearance | the attention of the inhabitants of Dorf |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 2 | **attend** |  | the inhabitants of Dorf |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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