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title: But the lovers little imagined that one person knew Eva was not lyin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the lovers little imagined that one person knew Eva was not lying in the damp vaults of the convent, and that they would be at the mercy of this discoverer. Who acts: lovers, one person, Eva, persons. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 67

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But the lovers little imagined that one person knew Eva was not lying in the damp vaults of the convent, and that they would be at the mercy of this discoverer.

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**Who acts:** lovers, one person, Eva, persons · **What happens:** imagine, know, not lie, be · **To what, where:** damp vaults, mercy · **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 (lovers, one person, Eva, persons), 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:pg74323:18:67
# text = But the lovers little imagined that one person knew Eva was not lying in the damp vaults of the convent, and that they would be at the mercy of this discoverer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	discoverer	discoverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | past | the lovers |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **know** | past | one person |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **lie** | past · progressive | Eva |  |  | the damp vaults of the convent |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vault=Location |
| 4 | **is** | would | persons *= person* |  |  | the mercy |  | of this discoverer | 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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