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title: The Ritter Knaught had a lovely little daughter, whose chief pleasur… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ritter Knaught had a lovely little daughter, whose chief pleasure was to gather wild-flowers; for this purpose she went often with her nurse into the forest. Who acts: Ritter Knaught, lovely little daughter, Knaught. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 28

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The Ritter Knaught had a lovely little daughter, whose chief pleasure was to gather wild-flowers; for this purpose she went often with her nurse into the forest.

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**Who acts:** Ritter Knaught, lovely little daughter, Knaught · **What happens:** have, gather, go, please · **To what, where:** lovely little daughter, wild flowers, forest

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter Knaught, lovely little daughter, Knaught), 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:pg74323:10:28
# text = The Ritter Knaught had a lovely little daughter, whose chief pleasure was to gather wild-flowers; for this purpose she went often with her nurse into the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Knaught	Knaught	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Ritter Knaught | a lovely little daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | a lovely little daughter *not said here* | wild flowers |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Knaught |  |  | the forest |  | for this purpose; with Knaught's nurse; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **please** |  | a lovely little daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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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