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title: As the result of these soliloquies, Alice informs the Abbess she mus… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: As the result of these soliloquies, Alice informs the Abbess she must relinquish her plan of becoming a nun, at least for the present, and go to her mother, who must be in great distress at the sudden loss of her nursling. Who acts: Alice, plan, mother. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz M
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 132

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As the result of these soliloquies, Alice informs the Abbess she must relinquish her plan of becoming a nun, at least for the present, and go to her mother, who must be in great distress at the sudden loss of her nursling.

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**Who acts:** Alice, plan, mother · **What happens:** inform, relinquish, become, go, be, result · **To what, where:** Abbess, plan, least, nun, great distress, soliloquies

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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 (Alice, plan, mother), 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:pg74323:19:132
# text = As the result of these soliloquies, Alice informs the Abbess she must relinquish her plan of becoming a nun, at least for the present, and go to her mother, who must be in great distress at the sudden loss of her nursling.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	soliloquies	soliloquy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	informs	inform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	relinquish	relinquish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	nursling	nursling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  | the Abbess |  |  | as the result of this soliloquies | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abbess=Recipient |
| 2 | **relinquish** | must | Alice | Alice's plan |  | least for the present |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Alice's plan *not said here* | a nun |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to Alice's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | must | Alice's mother |  |  | great distress |  | at the sudden loss of Alice's nursling | tree rules |
| 6 | **result** |  |  | this soliloquies |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **plan** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: 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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