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title: With a scream Eva sprang forward, threw herself down before Alice, c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With a scream Eva sprang forward, threw herself down before Alice, clasped her knees and cried, "Be merciful, Alice; have pity on my misery. Who acts: Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 99

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With a scream Eva sprang forward, threw herself down before Alice, clasped her knees and cried, "Be merciful, Alice; have pity on my misery.

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**Who acts:** Eva · **What happens:** spring, throw down, clasp, cry, be, have · **To what, where:** Eva, knees, pity, misery · **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), 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:pg74323:20:99
# text = With a scream Eva sprang forward, threw herself down before Alice, clasped her knees and cried, "Be merciful, Alice; have pity on my misery.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | Eva |  |  |  |  | with a scream; forward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw down** | past | Eva *not said here* | Eva |  |  | before Alice |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme before alice=Destination |
| 3 | **clasp** | past | Eva *not said here* | Eva's knees |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Eva *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Alice *conj*; merciful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | pity |  | my misery |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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