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title: A maiden lady, the Baronin von Schattenthal, who was staying at the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A maiden lady, the Baronin von Schattenthal, who was staying at the Castle with her young orphan niece, interested her with her quaint humour and sound common sense. Who acts: maiden lady, music. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, wi
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 108

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A maiden lady, the Baronin von Schattenthal, who was staying at the Castle with her young orphan niece, interested her with her quaint humour and sound common sense.

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**Who acts:** maiden lady, music · **What happens:** stay, sound, humour · **To what, where:** Castle, common sense, maiden lady

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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 (maiden lady, music), 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:pg74323:4:108
# text = A maiden lady, the Baronin von Schattenthal, who was staying at the Castle with her young orphan niece, interested her with her quaint humour and sound common sense.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Baronin	Baronin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	3	appos	_	_
8	Schattenthal	Schattenthal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	orphan	orphan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	niece	niece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · progressive | a maiden lady |  |  | the Castle |  | with music's young orphan niece | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at castle=Location |
| 2 | **sound** | present | a maiden lady *not said here* | common sense |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sense=Theme |
| 4 | **humour** |  | music |  |  |  |  |  | nom humour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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