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title: A young citizen of Sondershausen had, although honest, industrious,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A young citizen of Sondershausen had, although honest, industrious, and skilful, fallen into great embarrassment. Who acts: young citizen, honest. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 78

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A young citizen of Sondershausen had, although honest, industrious, and skilful, fallen into great embarrassment.

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**Who acts:** young citizen, honest · **What happens:** have, fall · **To what, where:** great embarrassment

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young citizen, honest), 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:pg74323:21:78
# text = A young citizen of Sondershausen had, although honest, industrious, and skilful, fallen into great embarrassment.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sondershausen	Sondershausen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a young citizen of Sondershausen |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | participle | honest |  |  |  |  | into great embarrassment *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into embarrassment=Result |

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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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