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title: An inexpressible sorrow seized her, she clad herself in mourning gar… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: An inexpressible sorrow seized her, she clad herself in mourning garments, grew paler than the flower that droops before the mighty frost, and refused to be comforted. Who acts: inexpressible sorrow, Liutburga, flower. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 24

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An inexpressible sorrow seized her, she clad herself in mourning garments, grew paler than the flower that droops before the mighty frost, and refused to be comforted.

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**Who acts:** inexpressible sorrow, Liutburga, flower · **What happens:** seize, clad, grow, droop, refuse, not comfort · **To what, where:** Liutburga, mourning garments, mighty frost

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inexpressible sorrow, Liutburga, flower), 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:pg74323:8:24
# text = An inexpressible sorrow seized her, she clad herself in mourning garments, grew paler than the flower that droops before the mighty frost, and refused to be comforted.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inexpressible	inexpressible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	droops	droop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | a inexpressible sorrow | Liutburga |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **clad** | past | Liutburga | Liutburga |  | mourning garments |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Liutburga *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **droop** | present | the flower |  |  | the mighty frost |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before frost=Location |
| 5 | **refuse** | past | a inexpressible sorrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **comfort** | to-infinitive · passive | a inexpressible sorrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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