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title: Probably Henry's own reflections were not of the most agreeable and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably Henry's own reflections were not of the most agreeable and consoling character, as he was thus compelled to recall his injustice and sin in his neglect of the Duchess. Who acts: own reflections, boy. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 50

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Probably Henry's own reflections were not of the most agreeable and consoling character, as he was thus compelled to recall his injustice and sin in his neglect of the Duchess.

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**Who acts:** own reflections, boy · **What happens:** not be, console, compel, recall, neglect · **To what, where:** character, boy, injustice, neglect, 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 (own reflections, boy), 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:pg74323:18:50
# text = Probably Henry's own reflections were not of the most agreeable and consoling character, as he was thus compelled to recall his injustice and sin in his neglect of the Duchess.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	consoling	console	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Henry's own reflections |  |  |  |  | agreeable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **console** | gerund | Henry's own reflections *not said here* | character |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus character=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compel** | past · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **recall** | to-infinitive |  | boy's injustice and sin |  | boy's neglect of the Duchess |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme |
| 5 | **neglect** |  | boy | the Duchess |  |  |  |  | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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