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title: The face of the dead is of a wondrous beauty, the long brown curls f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The face of the dead is of a wondrous beauty, the long brown curls fall over the breast, the small white hands, marked with plague-spots, are crossed above the still, cold heart. Who acts: face, long brown curls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 114

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The face of the dead is of a wondrous beauty, the long brown curls fall over the breast, the small white hands, marked with plague-spots, are crossed above the still, cold heart.

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**Who acts:** face, long brown curls · **What happens:** be, fall, mark, cross · **To what, where:** small white hands, breast, cold heart

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, long brown curls), 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:pg74323:19:114
# text = The face of the dead is of a wondrous beauty, the long brown curls fall over the breast, the small white hands, marked with plague-spots, are crossed above the still, cold heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
34	above	above	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the face of the dead |  |  |  |  | of a wondrous beauty | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the long brown curls | the small white hands |  | the breast |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over breast=Location |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  | the small white hands *not said here* |  |  |  | with plague spots | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spot=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | present · passive | the long brown curls *not said here* |  |  | the cold heart |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |

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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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