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title: On the borders of the wood stand the ruins of the ancient Kloster Mi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On the borders of the wood stand the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein, which we pass, and go up the valley, the brook acting as our guide. Who acts: you, we, brook. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 138

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On the borders of the wood stand the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein, which we pass, and go up the valley, the brook acting as our guide.

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**Who acts:** you, we, brook · **What happens:** stand, pass, go up, act, ruin · **To what, where:** ruins, borders, ancient Kloster Michaelstein, valley

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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 (you, we, brook), 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:pg74323:7:138
# text = On the borders of the wood stand the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein, which we pass, and go up the valley, the brook acting as our guide.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Michaelstein	Michaelstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ruins of the ancient Kloster Michaelstein |  | the borders |  | of the wood | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme on border=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | present | we | the ancient Kloster Michaelstein |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the valley |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient valley=Extent |
| 4 | **act** | gerund | the brook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as our guide | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as guide=Attribute |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | the ancient Kloster Michaelstein |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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