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title: Henry had no sympathy for prayers and church-going, neglected his pa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Henry had no sympathy for prayers and church-going, neglected his pale, youthful wife, seldom visiting the wing of the gloomy old castle she occupied except when etiquette demanded his presence. Who acts: Henry, wife, etiquette. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laude
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 1

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Henry had no sympathy for prayers and church-going, neglected his pale, youthful wife, seldom visiting the wing of the gloomy old castle she occupied except when etiquette demanded his presence.

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**Who acts:** Henry, wife, etiquette · **What happens:** have, go, neglect, visit, occupy, demand · **To what, where:** sympathy, church, pale youthful wife, wing, gloomy old castle, presence

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, wife, etiquette), 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:pg74323:19:1
# text = Henry had no sympathy for prayers and church-going, neglected his pale, youthful wife, seldom visiting the wing of the gloomy old castle she occupied except when etiquette demanded his presence.
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	except	except	ADP	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Henry | no sympathy |  |  |  | for prayers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Henry *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **neglect** | past | Henry *not said here* | Henry's pale youthful wife |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** | gerund | Henry *not said here* | the wing of the gloomy old castle |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **occupy** | past | wife | the gloomy old castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer |
| 6 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | etiquette | Henry's presence |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Precondition |

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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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