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title: "Alice!" cried Eva, rushing to her, and seizing her in her arms. " — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Alice!" cried Eva, rushing to her, and seizing her in her arms. " 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 57

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"Alice!" cried Eva, rushing to her, and seizing her in her arms. "

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** cry, rush, seize · **To what, where:** Alice, arms

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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:pg74323:20:57
# text = "Alice!" cried Eva, rushing to her, and seizing her in her arms. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | Eva *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  | Alice's arms |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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