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title: One clear moonlight night he mounted with hook and shovel to the rui… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One clear moonlight night he mounted with hook and shovel to the ruins; there, where once the tower had stood, he measured three times seven paces to the west from the tower, and the same distance from the gate southward. Who acts: Graumännchen. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 134

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One clear moonlight night he mounted with hook and shovel to the ruins; there, where once the tower had stood, he measured three times seven paces to the west from the tower, and the same distance from the gate southward.

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**Who acts:** Graumännchen · **What happens:** mount, stand, measure · **To what, where:** ruins, seven paces, tower

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen), 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:pg74323:7:134
# text = One clear moonlight night he mounted with hook and shovel to the ruins; there, where once the tower had stood, he measured three times seven paces to the west from the tower, and the same distance from the gate southward.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
18	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | Graumännchen |  |  | the ruins | night | with hook and shovel; southward *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ruin=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past · perfect | Graumännchen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once the tower | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **measure** | past | Graumännchen | seven paces  three times |  | the tower |  | to the west | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pace=Value |

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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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