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title: Happy sisters, ye are as yet safe from our mournful fate, for ye are… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy sisters, ye are as yet safe from our mournful fate, for ye are secure in your retreat from the barbarian!" Who acts: Happy sisters, ye, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 12

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Happy sisters, ye are as yet safe from our mournful fate, for ye are secure in your retreat from the barbarian!"

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**Who acts:** Happy sisters, ye, our · **What happens:** be, fate · **To what, where:** mournful fate, retreat

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Happy sisters, ye, our), 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:pg74323:24:12
# text = Happy sisters, ye are as yet safe from our mournful fate, for ye are secure in your retreat from the barbarian!"
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	barbarian	barbarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Happy sisters |  |  | our mournful fate | yet | ye *nsubj*; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | ye |  |  | your retreat |  | from the barbarian; secure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fate** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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