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title: At length the Princess rose and retired, the Giant remained to drink… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the Princess rose and retired, the Giant remained to drink of the costly wines. Who acts: Princess. 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 26

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At length the Princess rose and retired, the Giant remained to drink of the costly wines.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** rise, retire, remain, drink · **To what, where:** length, Giant

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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 (Princess), 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:pg74323:2:26
# text = At length the Princess rose and retired, the Giant remained to drink of the costly wines.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the Princess |  |  | length |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 2 | **retire** | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | the Princess *not said here* | the Giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the costly wines | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of wine=Source |

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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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