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title: But he could not go in his every-day dress to his benefactress, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But he could not go in his every-day dress to his benefactress, and the untruthful tailor neglected to deliver the red Sunday coat as promised. Who acts: sympathy, untruthful tailor. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its depend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 95

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But he could not go in his every-day dress to his benefactress, and the untruthful tailor neglected to deliver the red Sunday coat as promised.

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**Who acts:** sympathy, untruthful tailor · **What happens:** not go, neglect, not deliver, promise · **To what, where:** day dress, red Sunday coat

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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 (sympathy, untruthful tailor), 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:pg74323:21:95
# text = But he could not go in his every-day dress to his benefactress, and the untruthful tailor neglected to deliver the red Sunday coat as promised.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	untruthful	untruthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | could | sympathy |  |  | sympathy's day dress |  | to sympathy's benefactress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to benefactress=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **neglect** | participle | the untruthful tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **deliver** | to-infinitive | the untruthful tailor *not said here* | the red Sunday coat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | the untruthful tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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