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title: He so far forgot his manhood as frequently to strike, and even kick… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He so far forgot his manhood as frequently to strike, and even kick her. Who acts: treatment. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 55

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He so far forgot his manhood as frequently to strike, and even kick her.

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**Who acts:** treatment · **What happens:** forget, strike, kick · **To what, where:** manhood, Princess

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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 (treatment), 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:pg74323:3:55
# text = He so far forgot his manhood as frequently to strike, and even kick her.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | treatment | treatment's manhood |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | to-infinitive | treatment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kick** | infinitive |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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