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title: Opposite where Eva was sitting hung a life-size portrait of Duke Hen… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Opposite where Eva was sitting hung a life-size portrait of Duke Henry the Lion in tapestry. Who acts: Eva. 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 14

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Opposite where Eva was sitting hung a life-size portrait of Duke Henry the Lion in tapestry.

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**Who acts:** Eva · **What happens:** sit, portray · **To what, where:** size portrait, tapestry, Duke Henry

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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 (Eva), 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:pg74323:19:14
# text = Opposite where Eva was sitting hung a life-size portrait of Duke Henry the Lion in tapestry.
1	Opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	hung	hung	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Eva | hung size portrait of Duke Henry |  | tapestry |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme in tapestry=Location |
| 3 | **portray** |  |  | Duke Henry |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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