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title: How radiant was the royal maiden, her green veil floating on the bre… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: How radiant was the royal maiden, her green veil floating on the breeze, her clear eyes gazing fearlessly around her, her sweet face smiling like a bright morning in spring. Who acts: green veil, clear eyes, sweet face. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 69

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How radiant was the royal maiden, her green veil floating on the breeze, her clear eyes gazing fearlessly around her, her sweet face smiling like a bright morning in spring.

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**Who acts:** green veil, clear eyes, sweet face · **What happens:** be, float, gaze, smile · **To what, where:** radiant royal maiden, breeze

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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 (green veil, clear eyes, sweet face), 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:pg74323:8:69
# text = How radiant was the royal maiden, her green veil floating on the breeze, her clear eyes gazing fearlessly around her, her sweet face smiling like a bright morning in spring.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
19	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
27	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the radiant royal maiden and Reinhilde's sweet face |  |  |  | Reinhilde's green veil *appos*; Reinhilde's sweet face *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | gerund | Reinhilde's green veil *not said here* |  |  | the breeze |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund | Reinhilde's clear eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around Reinhilde; fearlessly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme |
| 4 | **smile** | gerund | Reinhilde's sweet face *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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