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title: And in fancy he pictured the old Schloss in its former state, throne… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And in fancy he pictured the old Schloss in its former state, throned on the proud rock, with giant round tower, and arched entrance gates, and Gothic windows, the battlements covered with soldiers in steel harness, with sword and lance. Who acts: tradition. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the H
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 79

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And in fancy he pictured the old Schloss in its former state, throned on the proud rock, with giant round tower, and arched entrance gates, and Gothic windows, the battlements covered with soldiers in steel harness, with sword and lance.

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**Who acts:** tradition · **What happens:** picture, throne, arch, cover · **To what, where:** old Schloss, fancy, proud rock, Gothic windows

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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 (tradition), 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:pg74323:7:79
# text = And in fancy he pictured the old Schloss in its former state, throned on the proud rock, with giant round tower, and arched entrance gates, and Gothic windows, the battlements covered with soldiers in steel harness, with sword and lance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pictured	picture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	throned	throne	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	parataxis	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | past | tradition | the old Schloss |  | fancy |  | in Schloss's former state; arched entrance gates *obl* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme |
| 2 | **throne** | participle | tradition *not said here* |  |  | the proud rock |  | with giant round tower | tree rules |
| 3 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | Gothic windows and the battlements |  |  |  | with soldiers; in steel harness; sword and lance *parataxis* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in harness=Theme |

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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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