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title: But one day her nurse lost sight of her, and not being able to find… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day her nurse lost sight of her, and not being able to find her, hastened in great terror to the castle to give the alarm. Who acts: one day. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 29

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But one day her nurse lost sight of her, and not being able to find her, hastened in great terror to the castle to give the alarm.

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**Who acts:** one day · **What happens:** lose, not be, find, hasten, give, sight · **To what, where:** sight, Knaught, great terror, alarm

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day), 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:pg74323:10:29
# text = But one day her nurse lost sight of her, and not being able to find her, hastened in great terror to the castle to give the alarm.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | one day  Knaught's nurse | sight of Knaught |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is** | gerund | one day  Knaught's nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | one day  Knaught's nurse *not said here* | Knaught |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle | one day  Knaught's nurse *not said here* |  |  | great terror to the castle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Trajectory |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | one day  Knaught's nurse *not said here* | the alarm |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | Knaught |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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