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title: A fiery-red, gold-bordered mantle hung in bunchy folds from his shou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A fiery-red, gold-bordered mantle hung in bunchy folds from his shoulders; a broad, drooping Spanish hat, with a long, waving red plume, sat sideways on his head, and a long rapier hung at his side. Who acts: long waving red plume, long rapier. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains»
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 19

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A fiery-red, gold-bordered mantle hung in bunchy folds from his shoulders; a broad, drooping Spanish hat, with a long, waving red plume, sat sideways on his head, and a long rapier hung at his side.

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**Who acts:** long waving red plume, long rapier · **What happens:** border, hang, droop, wave, sit · **To what, where:** red bordered mantle, bunchy folds, Spanish hat, head, side

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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 (long waving red plume, long rapier), 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:pg74323:21:19
# text = A fiery-red, gold-bordered mantle hung in bunchy folds from his shoulders; a broad, drooping Spanish hat, with a long, waving red plume, sat sideways on his head, and a long rapier hung at his side.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bunchy	bunchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	rapier	rapier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **border** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gold *compound* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | participle |  | a red bordered mantle *not said here* |  | bunchy folds from heart's shoulders |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fold=Location |
| 3 | **droop** | gerund |  | Spanish hat |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hat=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | past | a long waving red plume *not said here* |  |  | heart's head |  | sideways *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
| 6 | **hang** | past | a long rapier |  |  | heart's side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |

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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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