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title: She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were coun… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were countless--to eat the half of a double almond, and she ate its twin half. Who acts: Princess, prince, suitors. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 49

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She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were countless--to eat the half of a double almond, and she ate its twin half.

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**Who acts:** Princess, prince, suitors · **What happens:** cause, come, woo, be, eat · **To what, where:** prince, half, twin half

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, prince, suitors), 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:pg74323:13:49
# text = She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were countless--to eat the half of a double almond, and she ate its twin half.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wooing	woo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	twin	twin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | Princess | every prince |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prince=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | every prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **woo** | gerund | every prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Princess's suitors |  |  |  |  | countless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | the half of a double almond |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | past | Princess | half's twin half |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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