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title: You dare to reproach me, you, who did not hesitate to add the last d… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: You dare to reproach me, you, who did not hesitate to add the last drop of an infant's blood to make your elixir of life? Who acts: You. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, 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 11, sentence 53

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You dare to reproach me, you, who did not hesitate to add the last drop of an infant's blood to make your elixir of life?

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** dare, reproach, not hesitate, add, make · **To what, where:** me, last drop, elixir

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg74323:12:54
# text = You dare to reproach me, you, who did not hesitate to add the last drop of an infant's blood to make your elixir of life?
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reproach	reproach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	elixir	elixir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | present | You |  |  |  |  | you *conj* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reproach** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hesitate** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the last drop of a infant's blood |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | your elixir of life |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elixir=Product |

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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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