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title: Eva sighed, and replied, rising and laying her hand on Alice's shoul… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Eva sighed, and replied, rising and laying her hand on Alice's shoulder, at the same time glancing nervously at the portrait of Henry the Lion, "I am not happy either, dear Alice. Who acts: Eva, same time, Alice. 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 35

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Eva sighed, and replied, rising and laying her hand on Alice's shoulder, at the same time glancing nervously at the portrait of Henry the Lion, "I am not happy either, dear Alice.

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**Who acts:** Eva, same time, Alice · **What happens:** sigh, reply, rise, lay, glance, not be · **To what, where:** hand, shoulder, Henry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, same time, Alice), 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:pg74323:19:35
# text = Eva sighed, and replied, rising and laying her hand on Alice's shoulder, at the same time glancing nervously at the portrait of Henry the Lion, "I am not happy either, dear Alice.
1	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	nervously	nervously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
36	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | Eva |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund |  | pain's hand |  | Alice's shoulder | time |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 5 | **glance** | gerund | the same time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the portrait of Henry; nervously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | dear Alice *conj*; either, happy *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **portray** |  |  | 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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