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title: The benevolent maiden lay on the ground dying, her countenance disto… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The benevolent maiden lay on the ground dying, her countenance distorted with sorrow and pain. Who acts: benevolent maiden lay. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, 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 4, sentence 102

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The benevolent maiden lay on the ground dying, her countenance distorted with sorrow and pain.

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**Who acts:** benevolent maiden lay · **What happens:** die, distort

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (benevolent maiden lay), 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:pg74323:21:102
# text = The benevolent maiden lay on the ground dying, her countenance distorted with sorrow and pain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	distorted	distort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund | the benevolent maiden lay on the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **distort** | past | the benevolent maiden lay on the ground |  |  |  |  | with sorrow and pain; lay's countenance *nsubj* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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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