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title: Fischersche looked at him oddly, while a smile flitted over her wrin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Fischersche looked at him oddly, while a smile flitted over her wrinkled face. Who acts: Fischersche. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 27

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Fischersche looked at him oddly, while a smile flitted over her wrinkled face.

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**Who acts:** Fischersche · **What happens:** look, flit, wrinkle · **To what, where:** smile, wrinkled face

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fischersche), 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:pg74323:7:27
# text = Fischersche looked at him oddly, while a smile flitted over her wrinkled face.
1	Fischersche	Fischersche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	oddly	oddly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	flitted	flit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Fischersche |  |  |  |  | at eagle; a smile *conj*; oddly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **flit** | participle |  | a smile *not said here* |  | Fischersche's wrinkled face |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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