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title: May Rosenmore amused herself with a study of the varied characters p… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: May Rosenmore amused herself with a study of the varied characters present, and with German manners, which were new to her. Who acts: May, varied characters, German manners. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 107

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May Rosenmore amused herself with a study of the varied characters present, and with German manners, which were new to her.

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**Who acts:** May, varied characters, German manners · **What happens:** amuse, present, be · **To what, where:** music, study

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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 (May, varied characters, German manners), 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:pg74323:4:107
# text = May Rosenmore amused herself with a study of the varied characters present, and with German manners, which were new to her.
1	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rosenmore	Rosenmore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amuse** | past | May | music |  |  |  | with a study; German manners *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **present** | present | the varied characters | a study *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | German manners |  | music |  |  | new *property* | 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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