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title: Alice hesitated, for she was so moved at sight of her playmate and f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice hesitated, for she was so moved at sight of her playmate and foster-sister, she could not command her voice to speak. Who acts: 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 clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 28

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Alice hesitated, for she was so moved at sight of her playmate and foster-sister, she could not command her voice to speak.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** hesitate, move, not command, speak, sight · **To what, where:** Alice, sight, voice, playmate · **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 (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:pg74323:20:28
# text = Alice hesitated, for she was so moved at sight of her playmate and foster-sister, she could not command her voice to speak.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | past · passive |  | Alice |  | sight of Alice's playmate and foster sister |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **not** **command** | could | Alice | Alice's voice |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | Alice's playmate and foster sister |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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