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title: The Empress wrote to Madame d'Aubert, beseeching her to leave her hu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Empress wrote to Madame d'Aubert, beseeching her to leave her husband and repair to the Austrian Court. Who acts: Empress. 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 80

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The Empress wrote to Madame d'Aubert, beseeching her to leave her husband and repair to the Austrian Court.

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**Who acts:** Empress · **What happens:** write, beseech, leave · **To what, where:** Madame d'Aubert, Empress, husband, Austrian Court

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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 (Empress), 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:pg74323:3:80
# text = The Empress wrote to Madame d'Aubert, beseeching her to leave her husband and repair to the Austrian Court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	d'Aubert	d'aubert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | the Empress |  | Madame d'Aubert |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to d'aubert=Recipient |
| 2 | **beseech** | gerund | the Empress *not said here* | Empress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the Empress *not said here* | Empress's husband and repair | the Austrian Court |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to court=Recipient |

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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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