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title: If thou grant her the kiss, thou wilt fall an irrecoverable prey to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou grant her the kiss, thou wilt fall an irrecoverable prey to death. Who acts: thou. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, 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 3, sentence 87

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If thou grant her the kiss, thou wilt fall an irrecoverable prey to death.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** grant, fall · **To what, where:** kiss, guard, irrecoverable prey

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg74323:4:87
# text = If thou grant her the kiss, thou wilt fall an irrecoverable prey to death.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	irrecoverable	irrecoverable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | the kiss | guard |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal kiss=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | future | thou | a irrecoverable prey |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient prey=Extent to death=Result |

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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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