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title: She, however, was of opinion that her sorrow was much too great to p… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She, however, was of opinion that her sorrow was much too great to permit of her troubling any one else with it, and declared she could only find a mitigation of her woe in drying up the tears of others. Who acts: maiden, sorrow, permit, woe. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» b
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 87

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She, however, was of opinion that her sorrow was much too great to permit of her troubling any one else with it, and declared she could only find a mitigation of her woe in drying up the tears of others.

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**Who acts:** maiden, sorrow, permit, woe · **What happens:** be, trouble, declare, find, dry up, sorrow · **To what, where:** one, mitigation, tears, woe · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, sorrow, permit, woe), 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:pg74323:21:87
# text = She, however, was of opinion that her sorrow was much too great to permit of her troubling any one else with it, and declared she could only find a mitigation of her woe in drying up the tears of others.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	permit	permit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mitigation	mitigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  | of opinion; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | maiden's sorrow |  |  |  |  | permit *conj*; great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trouble** | gerund | permit *not said here* | any one |  |  |  | with sorrow; maiden *nmod:poss* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | could | maiden | a mitigation of maiden's woe |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mitigation=Topic |
| 6 | **dry up** | gerund | maiden's woe *not said here* | the tears of others |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
| 7 | **sorrow** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **mitigate** |  |  | maiden's woe |  |  |  |  | nom mitigation «act 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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