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title: "How very noble and self-sacrificing we would be!" exclaimed the Duc… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "How very noble and self-sacrificing we would be!" exclaimed the Duchess, coming forward from her concealment. " Who acts: 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 66

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"How very noble and self-sacrificing we would be!" exclaimed the Duchess, coming forward from her concealment. "

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**Who acts:** Duchess · **What happens:** be, sacrifice, exclaim, come forward, conceal · **To what, where:** concealment · **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 (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:pg74323:19:66
# text = "How very noble and self-sacrificing we would be!" exclaimed the Duchess, coming forward from her concealment. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	concealment	concealment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | noble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sacrifice** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come forward** | gerund |  |  |  | Duchess's concealment |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from concealment=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **conceal** |  | Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | nom concealment «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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