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title: The courtiers are talking; Alice insists on leaving me; I know it is… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The courtiers are talking; Alice insists on leaving me; I know it is out of sorrow she condemns me who am so far innocent. Who acts: courtiers, Alice, I, clock. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 53

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The courtiers are talking; Alice insists on leaving me; I know it is out of sorrow she condemns me who am so far innocent.

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**Who acts:** courtiers, Alice, I, clock · **What happens:** talk, insist, leave, know, be, condemn · **To what, where:** me, sorrow · **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 (courtiers, Alice, I, clock), 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:pg74323:19:53
# text = The courtiers are talking; Alice insists on leaving me; I know it is out of sorrow she condemns me who am so far innocent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	insists	insist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	condemns	condemn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present · progressive | the courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | clock |  |  | sorrow |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **condemn** | present | Alice | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; far, innocent *property* | 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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