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title: The invalid reclined on a huge old-fashioned sofa, propped up with s… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The invalid reclined on a huge old-fashioned sofa, propped up with silken cushions, surrounded by her husband, her two sons, and her young and only daughter Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 75

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The invalid reclined on a huge old-fashioned sofa, propped up with silken cushions, surrounded by her husband, her two sons, and her young and only daughter Eva.

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**What happens:** recline, prop up, surround · **To what, where:** invalid, huge fashioned sofa, silken cushions

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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: 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:pg74323:18:75
# text = The invalid reclined on a huge old-fashioned sofa, propped up with silken cushions, surrounded by her husband, her two sons, and her young and only daughter Eva.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invalid	invalid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	reclined	recline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	propped	prop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recline** | participle |  | the invalid *not said here* |  | a huge fashioned sofa |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location |
| 2 | **prop up** | participle · passive |  | the invalid |  |  |  | with silken cushions; Troth's young and daughter *parataxis* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  | silken cushions *not said here* |  |  |  | Troth's husband *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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