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title: The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melan… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melancholy, but highly intelligent countenance, and her sapphire blue eyes had a mournful, far-away look in them, that touched one deeply. Who acts: Countess, sapphire blue eyes, that. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountai
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 36

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The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melancholy, but highly intelligent countenance, and her sapphire blue eyes had a mournful, far-away look in them, that touched one deeply.

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**Who acts:** Countess, sapphire blue eyes, that · **What happens:** be, have, look, touch · **To what, where:** a

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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 (Countess, sapphire blue eyes, that), 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:pg74323:5:36
# text = The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melancholy, but highly intelligent countenance, and her sapphire blue eyes had a mournful, far-away look in them, that touched one deeply.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sapphire	sapphire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	obj	_	_
32	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Countess |  |  |  | still | five twenty *obl*; a pale melancholy *conj*; young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | friend's sapphire blue eyes | a |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in eyes *= eye*; away *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | past | that |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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