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title: Three years passed away after this interview, and Eva remained secur… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Three years passed away after this interview, and Eva remained securely hidden; but Henry's absences from Court grew longer and more frequent, and at last one of the courtiers resolved to penetrate the mystery. Who acts: Eva, absences, Henry. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» b
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 116

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Three years passed away after this interview, and Eva remained securely hidden; but Henry's absences from Court grew longer and more frequent, and at last one of the courtiers resolved to penetrate the mystery.

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**Who acts:** Eva, absences, Henry · **What happens:** pass away, remain, hide, grow, resolve, penetrate · **To what, where:** mystery, Court

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eva, absences, Henry), 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:pg74323:20:116
# text = Three years passed away after this interview, and Eva remained securely hidden; but Henry's absences from Court grew longer and more frequent, and at last one of the courtiers resolved to penetrate the mystery.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	absences	absence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past |  |  |  |  | after this interview; year | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Eva |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | participle | Eva *not said here* |  |  |  |  | securely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Henry's absences from Court |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **resolve** | past | Henry's absences from Court *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at last one of the courtiers | tree rules |
| 6 | **penetrate** | to-infinitive | Henry's absences from Court *not said here* | the mystery |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Patient |
| 7 | **absent** |  | Henry |  |  | Court |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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