--- title: Her face and hands are so white as to seem almost transparent; her c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Her face and hands are so white as to seem almost transparent; her curls fall in rich masses over her white silken robe; her blue eyes have a strange far-away look in them that strikes Alice to the heart. Who acts: face, curls, blue eyes, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, curls, blue eyes, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:20:19 # text = Her face and hands are so white as to seem almost transparent; her curls fall in rich masses over her white silken robe; her blue eyes have a strange far-away look in them that strikes Alice to the heart. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 11 almost almost ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 curls curl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 masses mass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 32 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 40 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Eva's face and hands | | | | | white *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | to-infinitive | Eva's face and hands *not said here* | | | | | transparent *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | present | Eva's curls | | | rich masses | | over Eva's white silken robe | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mass=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | Eva's blue eyes | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | in eyes *= eye* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme | | 6 | **strike** | present | that | Alice | | | | to the heart *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent alice=Patient to heart=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/20/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/)