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title: It was a large and richly-furnished chamber, hung with rare painting… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a large and richly-furnished chamber, hung with rare paintings, but the most charming pictures of all were the views its windows commanded. Who acts: invalid, charming pictures, windows. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 76

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It was a large and richly-furnished chamber, hung with rare paintings, but the most charming pictures of all were the views its windows commanded.

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**Who acts:** invalid, charming pictures, windows · **What happens:** furnish, be, hang, command · **To what, where:** large furnished chamber, views · **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 (invalid, charming pictures, windows), 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:pg74323:18:76
# text = It was a large and richly-furnished chamber, hung with rare paintings, but the most charming pictures of all were the views its windows commanded.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	richly	richly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
19	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | invalid | a large furnished chamber but the views |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | a large furnished chamber but the views *not said here* |  |  |  | with rare paintings | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the charming pictures | the views |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** | past | invalid's windows | the views *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality |

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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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