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title: And yet it is all wrong--all wrong, Henry; every visit, every gift f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet it is all wrong--all wrong, Henry; every visit, every gift from your dear hand is a sin against the good and noble-minded Duchess, once my motherly friend, a sin against your lawful children." Who acts: heart, visit. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 24

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And yet it is all wrong--all wrong, Henry; every visit, every gift from your dear hand is a sin against the good and noble-minded Duchess, once my motherly friend, a sin against your lawful children."

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**Who acts:** heart, visit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sin

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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 (heart, visit), 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:pg74323:18:24
# text = And yet it is all wrong--all wrong, Henry; every visit, every gift from your dear hand is a sin against the good and noble-minded Duchess, once my motherly friend, a sin against your lawful children."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
32	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	motherly	motherly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	against	against	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | heart |  |  |  | yet | all, wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Henry *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | every visit | a sin |  |  |  | against the good Duchess; my motherly friend and a sin against your lawful children *appos* | tree rules |

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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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