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title: "My darling Eva, put away these harrowing thoughts; they are shorten… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "My darling Eva, put away these harrowing thoughts; they are shortening your precious life." Who acts: darling Eva, thoughts. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 41

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"My darling Eva, put away these harrowing thoughts; they are shortening your precious life."

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**Who acts:** darling Eva, thoughts · **What happens:** put away, harrow, shorten · **To what, where:** harrowing thoughts, precious life

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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 (darling Eva, thoughts), 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:pg74323:18:41
# text = "My darling Eva, put away these harrowing thoughts; they are shortening your precious life."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	harrowing	harrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	shortening	shorten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put away** *in a quote* | infinitive | My darling Eva | this harrowing thoughts |  |  |  | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thought=Goal |
| 2 | **harrow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shorten** *in a quote* | present · progressive | thoughts *= thought* | your precious life |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent life=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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