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title: When I recall the affection and confidence of the Duchess, and refle… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: When I recall the affection and confidence of the Duchess, and reflect on my base, false friendship, my face burns with pain and shame. Who acts: I, face. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 43

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When I recall the affection and confidence of the Duchess, and reflect on my base, false friendship, my face burns with pain and shame.

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**Who acts:** I, face · **What happens:** recall, reflect, burn, confide · **To what, where:** affection, Duchess

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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 (I, face), 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:pg74323:18:43
# text = When I recall the affection and confidence of the Duchess, and reflect on my base, false friendship, my face burns with pain and shame.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recall	recall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | present | I | the affection and confidence of the Duchess |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme |
| 2 | **reflect** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on my base and false friendship | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on base=Topic |
| 3 | **burn** | present | my face |  |  |  |  | with pain and shame | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme |
| 4 | **confide** |  |  | the Duchess |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «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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