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title: Really and truly there it stood, with white walls, colossal round to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Really and truly there it stood, with white walls, colossal round tower at the entrance, battlements shimmering in the sunlight, and squires glittering in steel, with sword and lance. Who acts: wonder, battlements, squires. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Le
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 94

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Really and truly there it stood, with white walls, colossal round tower at the entrance, battlements shimmering in the sunlight, and squires glittering in steel, with sword and lance.

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**Who acts:** wonder, battlements, squires · **What happens:** stand, shimmer, glitter · **To what, where:** sunlight, steel

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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 (wonder, battlements, squires), 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:pg74323:7:94
# text = Really and truly there it stood, with white walls, colossal round tower at the entrance, battlements shimmering in the sunlight, and squires glittering in steel, with sword and lance.
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
20	shimmering	shimmer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	squires	squire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | wonder |  |  | there |  | with white walls and colossal round tower at the entrance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shimmer** | gerund | battlements *not said here* |  |  | the sunlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |
| 3 | **glitter** | gerund | squires |  |  | steel |  | with sword and lance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sword=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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