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title: Little did the father imagine he was thrusting his child into the wo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Little did the father imagine he was thrusting his child into the wolf's den, for a worse example of a false and neglectful husband than Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel it were not easy to find. Who acts: father, Younger. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 101

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Little did the father imagine he was thrusting his child into the wolf's den, for a worse example of a false and neglectful husband than Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel it were not easy to find.

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**Who acts:** father, Younger · **What happens:** imagine, thrust, not be, find, exemplify · **To what, where:** child, den, false husband

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Younger), 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:pg74323:18:101
# text = Little did the father imagine he was thrusting his child into the wolf's den, for a worse example of a false and neglectful husband than Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel it were not easy to find.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	neglectful	neglectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Younger	Younger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Wolfenbüttel	Wolfenbüttel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	expl	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | past · do-support | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **thrust** | past · progressive | father | father's child |  | the wolf's den |  | for a worse example of a false husband than Henry | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the Younger of Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel | a false husband than Henry *not said here* |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Younger of Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **exemplify** |  |  | a false husband than Henry |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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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