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title: Eva flushed, turned pale, and stood in confusion, while Alice looked… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Eva flushed, turned pale, and stood in confusion, while Alice looked on in bewildered amazement. Who acts: Eva, Alice. 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 42

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Eva flushed, turned pale, and stood in confusion, while Alice looked on in bewildered amazement.

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**Who acts:** Eva, Alice · **What happens:** flush, turn, stand, look on, bewilder · **To what, where:** confusion

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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, 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:pg74323:19:42
# text = Eva flushed, turned pale, and stood in confusion, while Alice looked on in bewildered amazement.
1	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flushed	flush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flush** | past | Eva |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Eva *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Eva *not said here* |  |  | confusion |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in confusion=Location |
| 4 | **look on** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | in bewildered amazement | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in amazement=Theme |
| 5 | **bewilder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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