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title: Finding that her aunt paid no attention to her toilette nor her curl… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding that her aunt paid no attention to her toilette nor her curls, Amalia finally whispered, "See, Tante, Gretchen has curled my hair." Who acts: Amalia, aunt, Gretchen. 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 111

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Finding that her aunt paid no attention to her toilette nor her curls, Amalia finally whispered, "See, Tante, Gretchen has curled my hair."

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**Who acts:** Amalia, aunt, Gretchen · **What happens:** find, pay, whisper, see, curl · **To what, where:** attention, Tante, hair · **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 (Amalia, aunt, Gretchen), 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:pg74323:4:111
# text = Finding that her aunt paid no attention to her toilette nor her curls, Amalia finally whispered, "See, Tante, Gretchen has curled my hair."
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	toilette	toilette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	Amalia	Amalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Tante	Tante	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Gretchen	Gretchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | Amalia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | Amalia's aunt | no attention |  |  |  | to Amalia's toilette nor Amalia's curls | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Amalia |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Tante |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tante=Stimulus |
| 5 | **curl** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gretchen | my hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

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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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