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title: "Oh, what a pity!" added the father, "that our new church in the New… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, what a pity!" added the father, "that our new church in the New Town must stand so long without either tower or bells. Who acts: pity, new church. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 44

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"Oh, what a pity!" added the father, "that our new church in the New Town must stand so long without either tower or bells.

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**Who acts:** pity, new church · **What happens:** pity, add, stand · **To what, where:** father · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, new church), 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:pg74323:24:44
# text = "Oh, what a pity!" added the father, "that our new church in the New Town must stand so long without either tower or bells.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc:preconj	_	_
28	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pity** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: express* | past | a pity | the father |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | must | our new church in the New Town | the father |  |  |  | without tower or bells; long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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