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title: Doth He not clothe the lilies, and give the rose and violet their pe… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Doth He not clothe the lilies, and give the rose and violet their perfume and exquisite hues? Who acts: wanderer, rose. 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 every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 85

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Doth He not clothe the lilies, and give the rose and violet their perfume and exquisite hues?

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**Who acts:** wanderer, rose · **What happens:** not clothe, give, perfume · **To what, where:** lilies, rose

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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 (wanderer, rose), 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:pg74323:10:85
# text = Doth He not clothe the lilies, and give the rose and violet their perfume and exquisite hues?
1	Doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	clothe	clothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **clothe** | present · do-support | wanderer | the lilies |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | wanderer *not said here* | the rose and violet |  |  |  | rose's perfume and exquisite hues *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent rose=Recipient perfume=Theme |
| 3 | **perfume** |  | rose |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: 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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