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title: But it is already late; seek thy couch and rest well!" — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is already late; seek thy couch and rest well!" Who acts: place, you. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 84

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But it is already late; seek thy couch and rest well!"

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**Who acts:** place, you · **What happens:** be, seek, rest · **To what, where:** couch

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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 (place, you), 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:pg74323:23:84
# text = But it is already late; seek thy couch and rest well!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | place |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy couch |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couch=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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