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description: In this romantic neighbourhood, in the thick fir forest, stand the crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg, overshadowed by the green veil of the wood, moss, ivy, and wild-flowers, and the mystic fascination of a time more than a thousand years ago. Who acts: you. A sentence of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 64

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In this romantic neighbourhood, in the thick fir forest, stand the crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg, overshadowed by the green veil of the wood, moss, ivy, and wild-flowers, and the mystic fascination of a time more than a thousand years ago.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stand, break, overshadow, fascinate · **To what, where:** crumbling tower, romantic neighbourhood, time

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg74323:8:64
# text = In this romantic neighbourhood, in the thick fir forest, stand the crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg, overshadowed by the green veil of the wood, moss, ivy, and wild-flowers, and the mystic fascination of a time more than a thousand years ago.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	crumbling	crumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Königsburg	Königsburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	fascination	fascination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
51	than	than	ADP	IN	_	50	fixed	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg and wild flowers |  | this romantic neighbourhood and the thick fir forest |  | ago *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tower=Theme in neighbourhood=Destination |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **overshadow** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the green veil of the wood and moss and ivy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fascinate** |  |  | a time |  |  |  |  | nom fascination «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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