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description: But the maiden, pale with terror, exclaimed: "What! thou will'st face the Terrible? plunge thyself into certain destruction, and me into fresh despair?" Who acts: maiden, thou. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 88

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But the maiden, pale with terror, exclaimed: "What! thou will'st face the Terrible? plunge thyself into certain destruction, and me into fresh despair?"

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**Who acts:** maiden, thou · **What happens:** exclaim, face · **To what, where:** plunge, certain destruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (maiden, thou), 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:pg74323:2:88
# text = But the maiden, pale with terror, exclaimed: "What! thou will'st face the Terrible? plunge thyself into certain destruction, and me into fresh despair?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will'st	will'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Terrible	Terrible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
20	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	20	appos	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | maiden | plunge |  | certain destruction |  | into fresh despair; me *obl*; What *obj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **face** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  | the Terrible *appos* | 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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