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title: Look at this beautiful Prayer Book in gold and precious stones, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at this beautiful Prayer Book in gold and precious stones, and the Bible[1] with my name in gold on its cover," she continued, pointing to a small table where they lay. Who acts: you, Book, gold, my. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 30

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Look at this beautiful Prayer Book in gold and precious stones, and the Bible\[1\] with my name in gold on its cover," she continued, pointing to a small table where they lay.

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**Who acts:** you, Book, gold, my · **What happens:** look, continue, point, lay, name · **To what, where:** Bible, beautiful Prayer Book, small table, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Book, gold, my), 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:pg74323:18:30
# text = Look at this beautiful Prayer Book in gold and precious stones, and the Bible[1] with my name in gold on its cover," she continued, pointing to a small table where they lay.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Bible |  | beautiful Prayer Book  this |  | in gold and precious stones; with my name in gold; on name's cover | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Book |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund | Book *not said here* |  | a small table |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to table=Recipient |
| 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | gold |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | my |  |  | gold |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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