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title: The good old man, when she came yesterday telling him all her sorrow… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The good old man, when she came yesterday telling him all her sorrow, received her lovingly, and gave her a secure refuge in his peaceful retreat. " Who acts: good old man, Reinhilde. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its depen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 137

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The good old man, when she came yesterday telling him all her sorrow, received her lovingly, and gave her a secure refuge in his peaceful retreat. "

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**Who acts:** good old man, Reinhilde · **What happens:** come, tell, receive, give, sorrow · **To what, where:** sorrow, Kaiser, lovingly, secure refuge, Reinhilde, peaceful retreat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good old man, Reinhilde), 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:pg74323:8:137
# text = The good old man, when she came yesterday telling him all her sorrow, received her lovingly, and gave her a secure refuge in his peaceful retreat. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lovingly	lovingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the good old man |  |  |  | yesterday | Reinhilde *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the good old man *not said here* | Reinhilde's sorrow | Kaiser |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sorrow=Topic |
| 3 | **receive** | past |  | Reinhilde's lovingly |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lovingly=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the good old man *not said here* | a secure refuge | Reinhilde | Kaiser's peaceful retreat |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient refuge=Theme |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | Reinhilde |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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