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title: "Oh, Henry!" exclaimed Eva von Trotta, for the youthful form belongs… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, Henry!" exclaimed Eva von Trotta, for the youthful form belongs to no other than this Fair Rosamond of Germany, "you strive to comfort me, but in vain. Who acts: Henry, youthful form, you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 21

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"Oh, Henry!" exclaimed Eva von Trotta, for the youthful form belongs to no other than this Fair Rosamond of Germany, "you strive to comfort me, but in vain.

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**Who acts:** Henry, youthful form, you · **What happens:** exclaim, belong, strive, comfort · **To what, where:** Eva, Henry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Henry, youthful form, 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:pg74323:18:21
# text = "Oh, Henry!" exclaimed Eva von Trotta, for the youthful form belongs to no other than this Fair Rosamond of Germany, "you strive to comfort me, but in vain.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	8	flat	_	_
10	Trotta	Trotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Rosamond	Rosamond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	strive	strive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Henry | Eva |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the youthful form |  |  |  |  | to no other than Fair Rosamond  this of Germany | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **strive** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **comfort** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Henry |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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