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title: While all the courts of Europe put on mourning, and the father wept… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: While all the courts of Europe put on mourning, and the father wept for his untimely loss, and caused a commemorative coin to be struck, Charlotte, with the aid of confidential friends, especially the famous Aurora von Königsmark, escaped, weak and ill, from her palace. Who acts: father. A sentence 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 63

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While all the courts of Europe put on mourning, and the father wept for his untimely loss, and caused a commemorative coin to be struck, Charlotte, with the aid of confidential friends, especially the famous Aurora von Königsmark, escaped, weak and ill, from her palace.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** put, weep, cause, strike, escape · **To what, where:** courts, mourning, commemorative coin, weak, palace

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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 (father), 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:pg74323:3:63
# text = While all the courts of Europe put on mourning, and the father wept for his untimely loss, and caused a commemorative coin to be struck, Charlotte, with the aid of confidential friends, especially the famous Aurora von Königsmark, escaped, weak and ill, from her palace.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	untimely	untimely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	commemorative	commemorative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	confidential	confidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
42	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	41	flat	_	_
43	Königsmark	Königsmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle · passive |  | all courts of Europe |  | mourning |  | with the aid of confidential friends; Charlotte *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on mourning=Destination |
| 2 | **weep** | past | the father |  |  |  |  | for father's untimely loss | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | past | the father *not said here* | a commemorative coin |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition coin=Patient |
| 4 | **strike** | to-infinitive · passive | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 5 | **escape** | past |  | weak |  | Europe's palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weak=Initial\_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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