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title: Duchess Maria, softened to hear of the lady Eva's death, sends membe… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Duchess Maria, softened to hear of the lady Eva's death, sends members of her Court to attend the funeral. Who acts: Duchess, Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, 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 2, sentence 110

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Duchess Maria, softened to hear of the lady Eva's death, sends members of her Court to attend the funeral.

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**Who acts:** Duchess, Eva · **What happens:** soften, hear, send, attend, die · **To what, where:** members, funeral

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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 (Duchess, Eva), 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:pg74323:19:110
# text = Duchess Maria, softened to hear of the lady Eva's death, sends members of her Court to attend the funeral.
1	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soften** | past | Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Duchess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the lady  Eva's death | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lady=Stimulus |
| 3 | **send** | present | Duchess *not said here* | members of lady's Court |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme |
| 4 | **attend** | to-infinitive | Duchess *not said here* | the funeral |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme funeral=Goal |
| 5 | **die** |  | Eva |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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