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title: The rarest exotics beautified the table, and stood in graceful baske… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The rarest exotics beautified the table, and stood in graceful baskets and vases in every part of the apartment. Who acts: rarest exotics. 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 every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 91

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The rarest exotics beautified the table, and stood in graceful baskets and vases in every part of the apartment.

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**Who acts:** rarest exotics · **What happens:** beautify, stand · **To what, where:** table, graceful baskets

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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 (rarest exotics), 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:pg74323:15:91
# text = The rarest exotics beautified the table, and stood in graceful baskets and vases in every part of the apartment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	exotics	exotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beautified	beautify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beautify** | past | the rarest exotics | the table |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the rarest exotics *not said here* |  |  | graceful baskets and vases |  | in every part of the apartment | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=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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