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title: An odd-shaped, pointed hat rested on his curly black hair, and an un… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: An odd-shaped, pointed hat rested on his curly black hair, and an uncultivated beard covered the lower part of his face. Who acts: uncultivated beard. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 50

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An odd-shaped, pointed hat rested on his curly black hair, and an uncultivated beard covered the lower part of his face.

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**Who acts:** uncultivated beard · **What happens:** shape, point, rest, cover · **To what, where:** shaped pointed hat, curly black hair

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncultivated beard), 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:pg74323:15:50
# text = An odd-shaped, pointed hat rested on his curly black hair, and an uncultivated beard covered the lower part of his face.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
8	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	uncultivated	uncultivated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **point** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | participle |  | a shaped pointed hat *not said here* |  | man's curly black hair |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location |
| 4 | **cover** | past | a uncultivated beard | a shaped pointed hat |  |  |  | the lower part of man's face *obj* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination |

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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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