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title: They bear the coffin to the convent vaults, the courtiers return to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They bear the coffin to the convent vaults, the courtiers return to the Court to picture the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva to the Duke and Duchess. Who acts: sister, courtiers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its depe
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 123

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They bear the coffin to the convent vaults, the courtiers return to the Court to picture the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva to the Duke and Duchess.

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**Who acts:** sister, courtiers · **What happens:** bear, return, picture, depart · **To what, where:** coffin, marvellous beauty

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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 (sister, courtiers), 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:pg74323:19:123
# text = They bear the coffin to the convent vaults, the courtiers return to the Court to picture the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva to the Duke and Duchess.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present | sister | the coffin |  |  |  | to the convent vaults | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient |
| 2 | **return** | present | the courtiers |  |  |  |  | to the Court *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result |
| 3 | **picture** | to-infinitive | the courtiers *not said here* | the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva |  |  |  | to the Duke and Duchess | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme to duke=be' |
| 4 | **depart** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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