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title: But Henry said carelessly, "The Duchess is coming, Fräulein von Trot… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But Henry said carelessly, "The Duchess is coming, Fräulein von Trotta; I am only a minute in advance." Who acts: Henry, Duchess. 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 43

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But Henry said carelessly, "The Duchess is coming, Fräulein von Trotta; I am only a minute in advance."

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**Who acts:** Henry, Duchess · **What happens:** say, come, be · **To what, where:** Fräulein, minute, advance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Henry, Duchess), 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:pg74323:19:43
# text = But Henry said carelessly, "The Duchess is coming, Fräulein von Trotta; I am only a minute in advance."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Fräulein	Fräulein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	12	flat	_	_
14	Trotta	Trotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Henry |  |  |  |  | carelessly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Duchess | Fräulein |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Henry | a minute |  | advance |  |  | tree rules |

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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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