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title: Henry hastens to Eva with the dreadful news; but Alice has been befo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Henry hastens to Eva with the dreadful news; but Alice has been before her, and Eva is prepared with another plan. Who acts: Henry, Alice. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, 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 3, sentence 122

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Henry hastens to Eva with the dreadful news; but Alice has been before her, and Eva is prepared with another plan.

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**Who acts:** Henry, Alice · **What happens:** hasten, be, prepare · **To what, where:** Eva

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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 (Henry, Alice), 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:pg74323:20:122
# text = Henry hastens to Eva with the dreadful news; but Alice has been before her, and Eva is prepared with another plan.
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hastens	hasten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | present | Henry |  | Eva |  |  | with the dreadful news | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to eva=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  |  | before Alice |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | present · passive |  | Eva |  |  |  | with another plan | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with plan=Instrument |

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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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