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title: She glanced toward heaven, but both moon and stars were hidden behin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She glanced toward heaven, but both moon and stars were hidden behind the dark clouds; the flowers hung sadly their drooping heads, as if in sympathy with the maiden doomed to a convent life. Who acts: Lina, flowers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 101

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She glanced toward heaven, but both moon and stars were hidden behind the dark clouds; the flowers hung sadly their drooping heads, as if in sympathy with the maiden doomed to a convent life.

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**Who acts:** Lina, flowers · **What happens:** glance, hide, hang, droop, doom · **To what, where:** moon, dark clouds, drooping heads, sympathy

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (Lina, flowers), 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:pg74323:3:101
# text = She glanced toward heaven, but both moon and stars were hidden behind the dark clouds; the flowers hung sadly their drooping heads, as if in sympathy with the maiden doomed to a convent life.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glance** | past | Lina |  |  |  |  | toward heaven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward heaven=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | past · passive |  | both moon and stars |  | the dark clouds |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind cloud=Location |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the flowers | flowers's drooping heads |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **doom** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the flowers *not said here* |  |  | sympathy with the maiden |  | to a convent life | tree rules |

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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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