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title: He did so, and on opening them again gazed around him in wonder, for… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He did so, and on opening them again gazed around him in wonder, for there opposite on the dark rock stood the Treseburg, that he had so often seen in ruins. Who acts: Graumännchen, opening. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 93

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He did so, and on opening them again gazed around him in wonder, for there opposite on the dark rock stood the Treseburg, that he had so often seen in ruins.

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**Who acts:** Graumännchen, opening · **What happens:** do, open, gaze, stand, have, see · **To what, where:** eyes, wonder, Treseburg, dark rock, ruins

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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, opening), 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:pg74323:7:93
# text = He did so, and on opening them again gazed around him in wonder, for there opposite on the dark rock stood the Treseburg, that he had so often seen in ruins.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Graumännchen |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | opening |  |  | wonder |  | around Graumännchen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  | the Treseburg |  | the dark rock |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treseburg=Theme on rock=Destination |
| 5 | **have** | past | Graumännchen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | participle | Graumännchen *not said here* |  |  | ruins |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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