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title: She neither wept nor complained, but met her destined bridegroom wit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She neither wept nor complained, but met her destined bridegroom with a solemn dignity. Who acts: Brunhilda. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 14

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She neither wept nor complained, but met her destined bridegroom with a solemn dignity.

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**Who acts:** Brunhilda · **What happens:** weep, complain, meet, destine · **To what, where:** destined bridegroom

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brunhilda), 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:pg74323:2:14
# text = She neither wept nor complained, but met her destined bridegroom with a solemn dignity.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc	_	_
5	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | Brunhilda |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | Brunhilda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Brunhilda *not said here* | Brunhilda's destined bridegroom |  |  |  | with a solemn dignity | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme with dignity=Instrument |
| 4 | **destine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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