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title: Instantly it occurred to the Earl that his shepherd Tidian had latel… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly it occurred to the Earl that his shepherd Tidian had lately grown rich, and he might be the seller. Who acts: Earl, shepherd. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, 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 9, sentence 4

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Instantly it occurred to the Earl that his shepherd Tidian had lately grown rich, and he might be the seller.

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**Who acts:** Earl, shepherd · **What happens:** occur, grow, be · **To what, where:** seller

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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 (Earl, shepherd), 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:pg74323:10:4
# text = Instantly it occurred to the Earl that his shepherd Tidian had lately grown rich, and he might be the seller.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Tidian	Tidian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | Earl |  |  |  |  | to the Earl; instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past · perfect | Tidian's shepherd |  |  |  |  | lately, rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | might | shepherd | the seller |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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