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title: With heavy head resting on his arm, the Kaiser sits alone in the gre… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With heavy head resting on his arm, the Kaiser sits alone in the great hall of the Königsburg. Who acts: heavy head, Kaiser. 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 94

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With heavy head resting on his arm, the Kaiser sits alone in the great hall of the Königsburg.

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**Who acts:** heavy head, Kaiser · **What happens:** rest, sit · **To what, where:** arm, great hall

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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 (heavy head, Kaiser), 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:pg74323:8:94
# text = With heavy head resting on his arm, the Kaiser sits alone in the great hall of the Königsburg.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Königsburg	Königsburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund | heavy head *not said here* |  |  | Kaiser's arm |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the Kaiser |  |  | the great hall of the Königsburg |  | with heavy head; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |

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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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