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title: He sits in an ivory chair by a marble table, his head resting upon h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He sits in an ivory chair by a marble table, his head resting upon his arm, and his long red beard has overgrown the whole table like moss. Who acts: tradition, head. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 43

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He sits in an ivory chair by a marble table, his head resting upon his arm, and his long red beard has overgrown the whole table like moss.

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**Who acts:** tradition, head · **What happens:** sit, rest, overgrow · **To what, where:** ivory chair, arm, long red beard

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradition, head), 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:pg74323:10:43
# text = He sits in an ivory chair by a marble table, his head resting upon his arm, and his long red beard has overgrown the whole table like moss.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | tradition |  |  | a ivory chair |  | by a marble table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | tradition's head *not said here* |  |  | tradition's arm |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon arm=Location |
| 3 | **overgrow** | present · perfect · passive |  | tradition's long red beard |  |  |  | the whole table *obj* | tree rules |

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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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