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title: In vain Jutta threw herself at her father's feet and declared she lo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain Jutta threw herself at her father's feet and declared she loved a handsome, good, and noble youth of ancient race. Who acts: Jutta. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 25

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In vain Jutta threw herself at her father's feet and declared she loved a handsome, good, and noble youth of ancient race.

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**Who acts:** Jutta · **What happens:** throw, declare, love · **To what, where:** Jutta, vain Jutta, handsome · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jutta), 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:pg74323:17:25
# text = In vain Jutta threw herself at her father's feet and declared she loved a handsome, good, and noble youth of ancient race.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Jutta	Jutta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past |  | Jutta |  | vain Jutta |  | at Jutta's father's feet; noble youth of ancient race *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in jutta=Destination |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | past | Jutta | a handsome |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handsome=Stimulus |

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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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