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title: She took an affectionate and reluctant leave of him, calling him bac… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She took an affectionate and reluctant leave of him, calling him back two or three times before she could let him go. Who acts: Eva, Henry. 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 claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 129

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She took an affectionate and reluctant leave of him, calling him back two or three times before she could let him go.

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**Who acts:** Eva, Henry · **What happens:** take, call, let, go · **To what, where:** affectionate leave, Henry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg74323:20:129
# text = She took an affectionate and reluctant leave of him, calling him back two or three times before she could let him go.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	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 | **take** | past | Eva | a affectionate leave of Henry |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Eva *not said here* |  | Henry |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | could | Eva | Henry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Henry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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