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title: The pale, ghastly faces looking up to God's pure, blue heavens so _f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The pale, ghastly faces looking up to God's pure, blue heavens so _fearfully calm_ above all this human woe and anguish. Who acts: pale ghastly faces. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 84

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The pale, ghastly faces looking up to God's pure, blue heavens so \_fearfully calm\_ above all this human woe and anguish.

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**Who acts:** pale ghastly faces · **What happens:** look up, anguish

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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 (pale ghastly faces), 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:pg74323:5:84
# text = The pale, ghastly faces looking up to God's pure, blue heavens so _fearfully calm_ above all this human woe and anguish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	anguish	anguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | gerund | the pale ghastly faces |  |  |  |  | to God's pure heavens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to heaven=Theme |
| 2 | **anguish** | infinitive | the pale ghastly faces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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