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title: Ah! not cold and hard was her heart; pure and tender, as the dewdrop… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! not cold and hard was her heart; pure and tender, as the dewdrops in the lily, it lay in her innocent breast, and adorned the morning of her life, till the sunny fire of love smiled down upon her. Who acts: heart, lily, love. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laud
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 105

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Ah! not cold and hard was her heart; pure and tender, as the dewdrops in the lily, it lay in her innocent breast, and adorned the morning of her life, till the sunny fire of love smiled down upon her.

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**Who acts:** heart, lily, love · **What happens:** be, lie, adorn, smile down · **To what, where:** innocent breast

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, lily, love), 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:pg74323:16:107
# text = Ah! not cold and hard was her heart; pure and tender, as the dewdrops in the lily, it lay in her innocent breast, and adorned the morning of her life, till the sunny fire of love smiled down upon her.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	till	till	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
44	down	down	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | sun's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | lily |  |  | sun's innocent breast |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in breast=Location |
| 3 | **adorn** | past | lily *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | the sunny fire *parataxis* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smile down** | past | love |  |  |  |  | upon sun; down *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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