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title: Her eyes were deep violet with an expression none could describe. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes were deep violet with an expression none could describe. Who acts: eyes, none. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 78

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Her eyes were deep violet with an expression none could describe.

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**Who acts:** eyes, none · **What happens:** be, describe · **To what, where:** deep violet

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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 (eyes, none), 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:pg74323:12:79
# text = Her eyes were deep violet with an expression none could describe.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ilse's eyes | deep violet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | could | none | deep violet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent violet=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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