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title: The cheeks were ashy pale, the eye broken, cold and still the lips;… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The cheeks were ashy pale, the eye broken, cold and still the lips; she awoke no more at his call. Who acts: cheeks, Liutburga, hearing. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, 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 7, sentence 37

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The cheeks were ashy pale, the eye broken, cold and still the lips; she awoke no more at his call.

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**Who acts:** cheeks, Liutburga, hearing · **What happens:** be, break, awake, call · **To what, where:** eye, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cheeks, Liutburga, hearing), 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:pg74323:8:37
# text = The cheeks were ashy pale, the eye broken, cold and still the lips; she awoke no more at his call.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	ashy	ashy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 cheeks |  |  |  |  | the eye *obl*; pale *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  | the eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **awake** | past | Liutburga |  |  | hearing's call |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at call=Location |
| 4 | **call** |  | hearing |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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