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title: Why does a noble knightly countenance there also turn pale? — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a noble knightly countenance there also turn pale? Who acts: noble knightly countenance. 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 74

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Why does a noble knightly countenance there also turn pale?

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**Who acts:** noble knightly countenance · **What happens:** turn

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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 (noble knightly countenance), 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:pg74323:8:74
# text = Why does a noble knightly countenance there also turn pale?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · do-support | a noble knightly countenance |  |  | there |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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