---
title: Alice, who heard these reports, knowing what others did not, that Ev… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice, who heard these reports, knowing what others did not, that Eva was not in the vaults of the convent at Gandersheim, resolved to make a visit to the Staufenburg, thinking very likely the reports of the lady in white were not simply wild mountain tales, but having some truth in them. Who acts: 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/142/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/) / 142

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 142

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Alice, who heard these reports, knowing what others did not, that Eva was not in the vaults of the convent at Gandersheim, resolved to make a visit to the Staufenburg, thinking very likely the reports of the lady in white were not simply wild mountain tales, but having some truth in them.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Alice, others, Eva, reports · **What happens:** hear, know, not do, not be, resolve, make · **To what, where:** reports, vaults, visit, wild mountain tales, truth, lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, others, Eva, reports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:19:142
# text = Alice, who heard these reports, knowing what others did not, that Eva was not in the vaults of the convent at Gandersheim, resolved to make a visit to the Staufenburg, thinking very likely the reports of the lady in white were not simply wild mountain tales, but having some truth in them.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Gandersheim	Gandersheim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	nmod	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
48	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
49	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
55	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Alice | this reports |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **do** | past | others |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Eva |  |  | the vaults |  | of the convent at Gandersheim | tree rules |
| 5 | **resolve** | participle |  | the vaults *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a visit |  |  |  | to the Staufenburg | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | past | the reports of the lady in white | wild mountain tales |  |  |  | simply *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | gerund |  | some truth |  |  |  | in reports *= report* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient |
| 10 | **report** |  |  | the lady in white |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/141/)
- next →: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/143/)
- ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/)