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title: Death was written on his noble brow, but his great, deep violet eyes… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Death was written on his noble brow, but his great, deep violet eyes looked bravely and tenderly as ever into mine. Who acts: great deep violet eyes. 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 e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 90

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Death was written on his noble brow, but his great, deep violet eyes looked bravely and tenderly as ever into mine.

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**Who acts:** great deep violet eyes · **What happens:** write, look · **To what, where:** Death, noble brow

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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 (great deep violet eyes), 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:pg74323:5:90
# text = Death was written on his noble brow, but his great, deep violet eyes looked bravely and tenderly as ever into mine.
1	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  | Death |  | Karl's noble brow |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on brow=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | past | Karl's great deep violet eyes |  |  |  |  | into mine; tenderly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into my=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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