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title: The old nurse Magda had just left her beloved young mistress, and Ev… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The old nurse Magda had just left her beloved young mistress, and Eva held the portrait in her hand, while a tumult of emotions shook her heart. Who acts: Eva, tumult. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 15

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The old nurse Magda had just left her beloved young mistress, and Eva held the portrait in her hand, while a tumult of emotions shook her heart.

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**Who acts:** Eva, tumult · **What happens:** leave, hold, shake · **To what, where:** old nurse, portrait, hand, 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 (Eva, tumult), 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:pg74323:19:15
# text = The old nurse Magda had just left her beloved young mistress, and Eva held the portrait in her hand, while a tumult of emotions shook her heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Magda	Magda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	emotions	emotion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old nurse |  |  |  | Magda's beloved young mistress *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mistress=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Eva | the portrait |  | mistress's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **shake** | past | a tumult of emotions | mistress's heart |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=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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