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title: The nuptials were near, and the widow was busy with the bride's trou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The nuptials were near, and the widow was busy with the bride's trousseau, when unexpectedly with Autumn arrived the foreign Prince and fair Ilse from their mysterious journey. Who acts: nuptials, widow. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., pa
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 107

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The nuptials were near, and the widow was busy with the bride's trousseau, when unexpectedly with Autumn arrived the foreign Prince and fair Ilse from their mysterious journey.

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**Who acts:** nuptials, widow · **What happens:** be, arrive, journey · **To what, where:** foreign Prince, mysterious journey

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuptials, widow), 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:pg74323:12:108
# text = The nuptials were near, and the widow was busy with the bride's trousseau, when unexpectedly with Autumn arrived the foreign Prince and fair Ilse from their mysterious journey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	trousseau	trousseau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the nuptials |  |  |  |  | with the bride's trousseau; the widow *nsubj*; busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the nuptials *not said here* | the foreign Prince and fair Ilse |  | widow's mysterious journey |  | with Autumn; unexpectedly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **journey** |  | widow |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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