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title: Charlotte lived a retired life, no one but the now aged waiting-woma… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Charlotte lived a retired life, no one but the now aged waiting-woman who had fled with her having the remotest idea of her high rank and astounding fate. Who acts: Charlotte, aged waiting woman. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, wi
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 83

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Charlotte lived a retired life, no one but the now aged waiting-woman who had fled with her having the remotest idea of her high rank and astounding fate.

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**Who acts:** Charlotte, aged waiting woman · **What happens:** live, flee, have · **To what, where:** retired life, remotest idea

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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 (Charlotte, aged waiting woman), 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:pg74323:3:83
# text = Charlotte lived a retired life, no one but the now aged waiting-woman who had fled with her having the remotest idea of her high rank and astounding fate.
1	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	remotest	remote	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	astounding	astounding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Charlotte | a retired life |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 2 | **flee** | past · perfect | the aged waiting woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the aged waiting woman *not said here* | the remotest idea of woman's high rank and astounding fate |  |  |  | woman *nmod:poss* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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