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title: This she felt to be all the more probable, since in all her rambling… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This she felt to be all the more probable, since in all her ramblings from town to castle no trace of the lost girl was to be found. Who acts: This. 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 ev
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 143

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This she felt to be all the more probable, since in all her ramblings from town to castle no trace of the lost girl was to be found.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** feel, be, lose, find · **To what, where:** trace

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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 (This), 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:pg74323:19:143
# text = This she felt to be all the more probable, since in all her ramblings from town to castle no trace of the lost girl was to be found.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ramblings	rambling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | This |  |  |  | since Alice's ramblings from town to castle | Alice *nsubj* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive | This *not said here* | no trace of the lost girl |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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