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title: After the death of both husband and daughter, she returned to Paris,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After the death of both husband and daughter, she returned to Paris, settled the affairs of her husband, and retired to Brussels, where she received an annual pension from the Austrian Empress. Who acts: death, husband. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 82

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After the death of both husband and daughter, she returned to Paris, settled the affairs of her husband, and retired to Brussels, where she received an annual pension from the Austrian Empress.

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**Who acts:** death, husband · **What happens:** return, settle, retire, receive, die · **To what, where:** Paris, affairs, Brussels, annual pension

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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 (death, husband), 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:pg74323:3:82
# text = After the death of both husband and daughter, she returned to Paris, settled the affairs of her husband, and retired to Brussels, where she received an annual pension from the Austrian Empress.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | death |  | Paris |  | after the death of both husband and daughter |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to paris=Result |
| 2 | **settle** | past | death *not said here* | the affairs of death's husband |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme affair=Location |
| 3 | **retire** | participle | death *not said here* |  | Brussels |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **receive** | past | death | a annual pension |  |  |  | from the Austrian Empress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pension=Theme from empress=Source |
| 5 | **die** |  | both husband and daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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