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title: A tall form of the most perfect symmetry, brilliant white complexion… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A tall form of the most perfect symmetry, brilliant white complexion, cheeks of a delicate rose, very large clear blue eyes, dark brown hair falling in luxuriant natural curls, and a dainty hand and foot, made her the delight of every eye that looked upon her. Who acts: dark brown hair, eye. A sente
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 15

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A tall form of the most perfect symmetry, brilliant white complexion, cheeks of a delicate rose, very large clear blue eyes, dark brown hair falling in luxuriant natural curls, and a dainty hand and foot, made her the delight of every eye that looked upon her.

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**Who acts:** dark brown hair, eye · **What happens:** fall, make, look, form, delight · **To what, where:** luxuriant natural curls, tall form, perfect symmetry

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark brown hair, eye), 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:pg74323:18:15
# text = A tall form of the most perfect symmetry, brilliant white complexion, cheeks of a delicate rose, very large clear blue eyes, dark brown hair falling in luxuriant natural curls, and a dainty hand and foot, made her the delight of every eye that looked upon her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	symmetry	symmetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	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 | **fall** | gerund | dark brown hair *not said here* |  |  | luxuriant natural curls |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in curl=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | a tall form of the perfect symmetry and brilliant white complexion and cheeks of a delicate rose and large clear blue eyes  dark brown hair |  |  |  | a dainty hand and foot *nsubj*; Oblivion *obj*; the delight of every eye *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | every eye |  |  |  |  | upon Oblivion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | the perfect symmetry and brilliant white complexion and cheeks of a delicate rose and large clear blue eyes  dark brown hair |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **delight** |  | every eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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