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title: But now the friends of the Princess united for her rescue; the oppor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But now the friends of the Princess united for her rescue; the opportunity was too favourable to let slip. Who acts: opportunity, Alexis. 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 59

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But now the friends of the Princess united for her rescue; the opportunity was too favourable to let slip.

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**Who acts:** opportunity, Alexis · **What happens:** be, let, rescue · **To what, where:** slip, friends

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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 (opportunity, Alexis), 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:pg74323:3:59
# text = But now the friends of the Princess united for her rescue; the opportunity was too favourable to let slip.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	united	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the opportunity |  |  |  |  | favourable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | the opportunity *not said here* | slip |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** |  | Alexis |  |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act 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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