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title: Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of the Baronin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of the Baronin, accompanied by a tall noble-looking lady attired in black. Who acts: approach, Baronin. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 33

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Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of the Baronin, accompanied by a tall noble-looking lady attired in black.

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**Who acts:** approach, Baronin · **What happens:** interrupt, accompany, look, attire, approach · **To what, where:** conversation, approach, tall looking lady

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (approach, Baronin), 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:pg74323:5:33
# text = Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of the Baronin, accompanied by a tall noble-looking lady attired in black.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Baronin	Baronin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interrupt** | past · passive | the approach of the Baronin | the conversation |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  | the approach of the Baronin *not said here* |  |  |  | by a tall looking lady | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by lady=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **attire** | participle |  | a tall looking lady *not said here* |  |  |  | in black | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in black=Theme |
| 5 | **approach** |  | the Baronin |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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