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title: Desolate stand the ruins of the once imperial hunting seat, the moat… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Desolate stand the ruins of the once imperial hunting seat, the moat so thickly overgrown with the buck-thorn that no human foot would willingly attempt to tread it. Who acts: Desolate, human foot. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 65

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Desolate stand the ruins of the once imperial hunting seat, the moat so thickly overgrown with the buck-thorn that no human foot would willingly attempt to tread it.

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**Who acts:** Desolate, human foot · **What happens:** stand, overgrow, attempt, tread, ruin · **To what, where:** ruins, moat, buck thorn, foot, imperial hunting seat

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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 (Desolate, human foot), 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:pg74323:8:65
# text = Desolate stand the ruins of the once imperial hunting seat, the moat so thickly overgrown with the buck-thorn that no human foot would willingly attempt to tread it.
1	Desolate	Desolate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	AFX	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Desolate | the ruins of the imperial hunting seat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **overgrow** | participle |  | the moat *not said here* |  |  |  | with the buck thorn | tree rules |
| 3 | **attempt** | would | no human foot | the buck thorn |  |  |  | willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tread** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no human foot *not said here* | foot |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | the imperial hunting seat |  |  |  |  | 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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