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title: Come, come; oh, listen to the voice of warning before it is too late… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, come; oh, listen to the voice of warning before it is too late," and Alice seized Eva's hand as if she would lead her away. Who acts: you, warning, 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 prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 89

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Come, come; oh, listen to the voice of warning before it is too late," and Alice seized Eva's hand as if she would lead her away.

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**Who acts:** you, warning, Alice · **What happens:** come, listen, be, seize, lead away · **To what, where:** hand, 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 (you, warning, 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:pg74323:20:89
# text = Come, come; oh, listen to the voice of warning before it is too late," and Alice seized Eva's hand as if she would lead her away.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the voice of warning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | warning |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seize** *in a quote* | past | Alice | Eva's hand |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 6 | **lead away** *in a quote* | would | Alice | Eva |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «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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