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title: Below Schloss Falkenstein, in the valley where the gentle Selke wind… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Below Schloss Falkenstein, in the valley where the gentle Selke winds through her flower-strewn paths, the shepherd of the Graf von Falkenstein grazed his sheep on the dew-gathering meadows. Who acts: gentle Selke, shepherd. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 95

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Below Schloss Falkenstein, in the valley where the gentle Selke winds through her flower-strewn paths, the shepherd of the Graf von Falkenstein grazed his sheep on the dew-gathering meadows.

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**Who acts:** gentle Selke, shepherd · **What happens:** wind, graze · **To what, where:** strewn paths, sheep, Schloss

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle Selke, shepherd), 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:pg74323:9:95
# text = Below Schloss Falkenstein, in the valley where the gentle Selke winds through her flower-strewn paths, the shepherd of the Graf von Falkenstein grazed his sheep on the dew-gathering meadows.
1	Below	below	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Schloss	Schloss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
3	Falkenstein	Falkenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Selke	Selke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Graf	Graf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	26	compound	_	_
26	Falkenstein	Falkenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	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 | **wind** | present | the gentle Selke |  |  | Selke's strewn paths |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through path=Trajectory |
| 2 | **graze** | past | the shepherd of the Graf von Falkenstein | shepherd's sheep |  | Schloss |  | on the gathering meadows | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sheep=Experiencer on meadow=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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