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title: The grace of all her movements seemed akin to poetry and music, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The grace of all her movements seemed akin to poetry and music, and the expression of her radiant countenance betokened a noble and amiable mind. Who acts: grace, expression. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 16

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The grace of all her movements seemed akin to poetry and music, and the expression of her radiant countenance betokened a noble and amiable mind.

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**Who acts:** grace, expression · **What happens:** seem, betoken, move · **To what, where:** noble mind

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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 (grace, expression), 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:pg74323:18:16
# text = The grace of all her movements seemed akin to poetry and music, and the expression of her radiant countenance betokened a noble and amiable mind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	akin	akin	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	betokened	betoken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the grace of grace's movements |  |  |  |  | to poetry and music; akin *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **betoken** | past | the expression of grace's radiant countenance | a noble mind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** |  | grace |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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