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title: It was not the pale, pious Duchess who had so suddenly fascinated He… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not the pale, pious Duchess who had so suddenly fascinated Henry, but the maid of honour, radiant in black Genoa velvet and silver spangles, into whose clear blue eyes Henry's brown ones looked so willingly. Who acts: loveliness, pale pious Duchess. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Har
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 7

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It was not the pale, pious Duchess who had so suddenly fascinated Henry, but the maid of honour, radiant in black Genoa velvet and silver spangles, into whose clear blue eyes Henry's brown ones looked so willingly.

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**Who acts:** loveliness, pale pious Duchess · **What happens:** not be, fascinate, look · **To what, where:** pale pious Duchess, 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 (loveliness, pale pious Duchess), 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:pg74323:19:7
# text = It was not the pale, pious Duchess who had so suddenly fascinated Henry, but the maid of honour, radiant in black Genoa velvet and silver spangles, into whose clear blue eyes Henry's brown ones looked so willingly.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Genoa	Genoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	spangles	spangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
36	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
40	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | loveliness | the pale pious Duchess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fascinate** | past · perfect | the pale pious Duchess | Henry |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus henry=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | past | the pale pious Duchess |  |  |  |  | the maid of honour *nsubj*; willingly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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