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title: With all this we have at present nothing to do, but rather with the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With all this we have at present nothing to do, but rather with the singular destiny of a lady who was born here, whose portrait hangs in the drawing and billiard room. Who acts: we, portrait. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 34

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With all this we have at present nothing to do, but rather with the singular destiny of a lady who was born here, whose portrait hangs in the drawing and billiard room.

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**Who acts:** we, portrait · **What happens:** have, do, bear, hang · **To what, where:** nothing, lady, drawing

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, portrait), 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:pg74323:3:34
# text = With all this we have at present nothing to do, but rather with the singular destiny of a lady who was born here, whose portrait hangs in the drawing and billiard room.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	billiard	billiard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | nothing |  |  |  | with this; the singular destiny of a lady *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a lady |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | present | portrait |  |  | the drawing and billiard room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawing=Location |

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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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