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title: Later on this same day Eva sat alone in her boudoir gazing at the po… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Later on this same day Eva sat alone in her boudoir gazing at the portrait, an exquisite enamel set in diamonds. Who acts: boudoir. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 12

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Later on this same day Eva sat alone in her boudoir gazing at the portrait, an exquisite enamel set in diamonds.

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**Who acts:** boudoir · **What happens:** sit, gaze, set · **To what, where:** boudoir, exquisite enamel, diamonds

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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 (boudoir), 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:pg74323:19:12
# text = Later on this same day Eva sat alone in her boudoir gazing at the portrait, an exquisite enamel set in diamonds.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	boudoir	boudoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | mistress's boudoir and a exquisite enamel | day | alone, late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in boudoir=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | mistress's boudoir and a exquisite enamel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the portrait | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | participle |  | a exquisite enamel *not said here* |  | diamonds |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in diamond=Destination |

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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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