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title: She sat down much shaken on a seat of turf shaded by two lindens, an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She sat down much shaken on a seat of turf shaded by two lindens, and the tears streamed from her eyes. Who acts: Lina, tears. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 102

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She sat down much shaken on a seat of turf shaded by two lindens, and the tears streamed from her eyes.

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**Who acts:** Lina, tears · **What happens:** sit down, shake, shade, stream · **To what, where:** seat, turf, eyes

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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, tears), 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:pg74323:3:102
# text = She sat down much shaken on a seat of turf shaded by two lindens, and the tears streamed from her eyes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	lindens	linden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Lina |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | participle | Lina *not said here* |  |  | a seat of turf |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seat=Location |
| 3 | **shade** | participle |  | turf *not said here* |  |  |  | by two lindens | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stream** | participle | the tears |  |  | Lina's eyes |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |

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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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