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title: I will disguise myself as an old woman, a seller of lace; thus I can… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I will disguise myself as an old woman, a seller of lace; thus I can gain admittance everywhere. Who acts: I. 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 130

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I will disguise myself as an old woman, a seller of lace; thus I can gain admittance everywhere.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** disguise, gain · **To what, where:** myself, admittance

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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 (I), 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:pg74323:19:130
# text = I will disguise myself as an old woman, a seller of lace; thus I can gain admittance everywhere.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disguise	disguise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | as a old woman | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Destination |
| 2 | **gain** | can | I | admittance |  |  |  | everywhere, thus *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admittance=Theme |

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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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