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title: The Abbess knew of the love of the young novice, and watched her wit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Abbess knew of the love of the young novice, and watched her with Argus eyes, not out of holy zeal, for the convent had long been ill-renowned for the impure life of its inmates, but out of hatred to the maiden whose father she had loved, but with an unrequited affection. Who acts: Abbess, conve
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 93

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The Abbess knew of the love of the young novice, and watched her with Argus eyes, not out of holy zeal, for the convent had long been ill-renowned for the impure life of its inmates, but out of hatred to the maiden whose father she had loved, but with an unrequited affection.

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**Who acts:** Abbess, convent · **What happens:** know, watch, be, love · **To what, where:** Abbess, holy zeal, maiden father, young novice

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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 (Abbess, convent), 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:pg74323:3:93
# text = The Abbess knew of the love of the young novice, and watched her with Argus eyes, not out of holy zeal, for the convent had long been ill-renowned for the impure life of its inmates, but out of hatred to the maiden whose father she had loved, but with an unrequited affection.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	novice	novice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Argus	Argus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	impure	impure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	unrequited	unrequited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Abbess |  |  |  |  | of the love of the young novice; hatred to hatred to hatred's maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father but a unrequited affection *parataxis* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of love=Stimulus |
| 2 | **watch** | past |  | Abbess |  | holy zeal |  | with Argus eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | the convent |  |  |  |  | for the impure life of convent's inmates; long, renowned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | past · perfect | Abbess | hatred to hatred to the maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 5 | **love** |  |  | the young novice |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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