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title: Reinhilde raises her eyes with firmness to his and replies: "Dear fa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Reinhilde raises her eyes with firmness to his and replies: "Dear father, forgive, but I do not seek for crowns. Who acts: Reinhilde. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, 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 7, sentence 79

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Reinhilde raises her eyes with firmness to his and replies: "Dear father, forgive, but I do not seek for crowns.

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**Who acts:** Reinhilde · **What happens:** raise, reply, forgive, not seek · **To what, where:** eyes, Dear father · **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 (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:pg74323:8:79
# text = Reinhilde raises her eyes with firmness to his and replies: "Dear father, forgive, but I do not seek for crowns.
1	Reinhilde	Reinhilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	firmness	firmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | Reinhilde | Reinhilde's eyes |  |  |  | with firmness | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with firmness=Instrument |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | Reinhilde *not said here* | Dear father |  |  |  | prince *nmod:poss* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **seek** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Reinhilde |  |  |  |  | for crowns | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for crown=Theme |

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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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