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title: I would live shut out from the world for ever for you, and you alone… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I would live shut out from the world for ever for you, and you alone, and, safe from disturbance and discovery, would be happy." 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 65

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I would live shut out from the world for ever for you, and you alone, and, safe from disturbance and discovery, would be happy."

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**What happens:** shut out, be · **To what, where:** I, world

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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: 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:pg74323:19:65
# text = I would live shut out from the world for ever for you, and you alone, and, safe from disturbance and discovery, would be happy."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	csubj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut out** | would · passive |  | I |  | the world |  | for you; alone *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | happy *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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