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title: "What a contrast to these grim ruins, with all their legendary memor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "What a contrast to these grim ruins, with all their legendary memories, is this elegant scrap of modern art!" exclaimed May. " Who acts: contrast. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 100

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"What a contrast to these grim ruins, with all their legendary memories, is this elegant scrap of modern art!" exclaimed May. "

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**Who acts:** contrast · **What happens:** contrast, be, exclaim · **To what, where:** elegant scrap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrast), 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:pg74323:4:100
# text = "What a contrast to these grim ruins, with all their legendary memories, is this elegant scrap of modern art!" exclaimed May. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
25	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contrast** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | to this grim ruins; What *nsubj*; contrast's legendary memories *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this elegant scrap |  |  |  | of modern art | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | a contrast and contrast's legendary memories and this elegant scrap |  |  |  | may |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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