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title: Then she sent for her children, wept over them, and gave her directi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she sent for her children, wept over them, and gave her directions to Magda and Alice, and cut off Eitel's long curls that he might not be recognised, his resemblance to her with his long hair being so striking. Who acts: Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie La
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 130

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Then she sent for her children, wept over them, and gave her directions to Magda and Alice, and cut off Eitel's long curls that he might not be recognised, his resemblance to her with his long hair being so striking.

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**Who acts:** Eva · **What happens:** send, weep, give, cut off, not recognise, strike · **To what, where:** directions, Eva, long curls, Eitel

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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), 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:pg74323:20:130
# text = Then she sent for her children, wept over them, and gave her directions to Magda and Alice, and cut off Eitel's long curls that he might not be recognised, his resemblance to her with his long hair being so striking.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Magda	Magda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	Eitel	Eitel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	nsubj	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Eva |  |  |  | then | for Eva's children | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weep** | past | Eva *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over children *= child* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | Eva *not said here* | directions | Eva |  |  | to Magda and Alice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient direction=Theme |
| 4 | **cut off** | participle |  | Eitel's long curls and Eitel's resemblance to Eva with Eitel's long hair |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector curl=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **recognise** | might · passive |  | Eitel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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