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title: The two figures stood in the arbour, motionless as marble, while Mar… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The two figures stood in the arbour, motionless as marble, while Maria hastened to send messengers immediately to her father and other princes, acquainting them of Henry's perfidy. Who acts: two figures, Maria. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Ta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 71

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The two figures stood in the arbour, motionless as marble, while Maria hastened to send messengers immediately to her father and other princes, acquainting them of Henry's perfidy.

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**Who acts:** two figures, Maria · **What happens:** stand, hasten, send, acquaint · **To what, where:** arbour, messengers, father

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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 (two figures, Maria), 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:pg74323:19:71
# text = The two figures stood in the arbour, motionless as marble, while Maria hastened to send messengers immediately to her father and other princes, acquainting them of Henry's perfidy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	acquainting	acquaint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	perfidy	perfidy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the two figures |  |  | the arbour |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arbour=Location |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | Maria |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | Maria *not said here* | messengers | Maria's father and other princes |  |  | immediately *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to father=Destination |
| 4 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | gerund | Maria *not said here* | messengers *= messenger* |  |  |  | of Henry's perfidy | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of perfidy=Topic |

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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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