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title: A beloved wife lay at home ill, six hungry children waited with her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A beloved wife lay at home ill, six hungry children waited with her anxiously for his return, and he must return with empty hands. Who acts: beloved wife, six hungry children, wanderer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dep
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 80

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A beloved wife lay at home ill, six hungry children waited with her anxiously for his return, and he must return with empty hands.

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**Who acts:** beloved wife, six hungry children, wanderer · **What happens:** lay, wait, return · **To what, where:** home

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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 (beloved wife, six hungry children, wanderer), 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:pg74323:10:80
# text = A beloved wife lay at home ill, six hungry children waited with her anxiously for his return, and he must return with empty hands.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | a beloved wife |  |  | home |  | ill *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at home=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past | six hungry children |  |  |  |  | with wife; for wanderer's return; anxiously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | must | wanderer |  |  |  |  | with empty hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **return** |  | wanderer |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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