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title: A group of fair maidens sat in a rose arbour playing harp, lute, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A group of fair maidens sat in a rose arbour playing harp, lute, and harpsichord, while others stood by the table in attendance. Who acts: group, rose arbour, others. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 96

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A group of fair maidens sat in a rose arbour playing harp, lute, and harpsichord, while others stood by the table in attendance.

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**Who acts:** group, rose arbour, others · **What happens:** sit, play, stand · **To what, where:** rose arbour, harp, attendance

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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 (group, rose arbour, others), 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:pg74323:12:97
# text = A group of fair maidens sat in a rose arbour playing harp, lute, and harpsichord, while others stood by the table in attendance.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	harpsichord	harpsichord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | a group of fair maidens |  |  | a rose arbour and harpsichord |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arbour=Location |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | a rose arbour and harpsichord *not said here* | harp and lute |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | others |  |  | attendance |  | by the table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by table=Location |

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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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