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title: Richly-worked tapestry covered the walls, the softest cushions invit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Richly-worked tapestry covered the walls, the softest cushions invited to repose, the light, like a soft twilight, fell through green windows, and composed the spirit to a sweet calmness and peace. Who acts: worked tapestry, softest cushions. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» b
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 79

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Richly-worked tapestry covered the walls, the softest cushions invited to repose, the light, like a soft twilight, fell through green windows, and composed the spirit to a sweet calmness and peace.

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**Who acts:** worked tapestry, softest cushions · **What happens:** work, cover, invite, repose, fall, compose · **To what, where:** walls, softest cushions, green windows, spirit

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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 (worked tapestry, softest cushions), 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:pg74323:15:79
# text = Richly-worked tapestry covered the walls, the softest cushions invited to repose, the light, like a soft twilight, fell through green windows, and composed the spirit to a sweet calmness and peace.
1	Richly	richly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	softest	soft	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	calmness	calmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | past | worked tapestry | the walls and the softest cushions and the light and a soft twilight |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination |
| 3 | **invite** | participle |  | the softest cushions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **repose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the softest cushions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | worked tapestry *not said here* |  |  | green windows |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 6 | **compose** | past | worked tapestry *not said here* | the spirit |  |  |  | to a sweet calmness and peace | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Result |

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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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