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title: After some reflection, Adam permitted his wife, who looked at him wi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After some reflection, Adam permitted his wife, who looked at him with beseeching eyes, to bring the required objects. Who acts: Adam, wife. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 30

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After some reflection, Adam permitted his wife, who looked at him with beseeching eyes, to bring the required objects.

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**Who acts:** Adam, wife · **What happens:** permit, look, beseech, bring, require · **To what, where:** wife, required objects

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adam, wife), 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:pg74323:23:30
# text = After some reflection, Adam permitted his wife, who looked at him with beseeching eyes, to bring the required objects.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	permitted	permit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | past | Adam | Adam's wife |  |  | after some reflection |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Adam's wife |  |  |  |  | at Adam; with beseeching eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **beseech** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Adam *not said here* | the required objects |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 5 | **require** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=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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