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title: Arrived on the balcony she paused and gazed at the graceful but pass… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Arrived on the balcony she paused and gazed at the graceful but passive figure half reclining in a fauteuil in full view of the mountains. Who acts: Alice, graceful figure half. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 17

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Arrived on the balcony she paused and gazed at the graceful but passive figure half reclining in a fauteuil in full view of the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Alice, graceful figure half · **What happens:** arrive, pause, gaze, recline, view · **To what, where:** balcony, fauteuil, mountains

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, graceful figure half), 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:pg74323:20:17
# text = Arrived on the balcony she paused and gazed at the graceful but passive figure half reclining in a fauteuil in full view of the mountains.
1	Arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	passive	passive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	obl	_	_
16	reclining	recline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fauteuil	fauteuil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | participle | Alice *not said here* |  |  | the balcony |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pause** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the graceful figure half | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at half=Theme |
| 4 | **recline** | gerund | the graceful figure half *not said here* |  |  | a fauteuil |  | in full view of the mountains | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fauteuil=Location |
| 5 | **view** |  |  | the mountains |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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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