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title: One day a remark of the Earl, Albert the Handsome von Nurnberg was r… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a remark of the Earl, Albert the Handsome von Nurnberg was repeated to her: "I would willingly espouse the fair Countess Agnes, but for the four eyes." Who acts: widow. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 93

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One day a remark of the Earl, Albert the Handsome von Nurnberg was repeated to her: "I would willingly espouse the fair Countess Agnes, but for the four eyes."

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**Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** repeat, espouse, remark · **To what, where:** remark, Albert, fair Countess, Earl · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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:pg74323:11:93
# text = One day a remark of the Earl, Albert the Handsome von Nurnberg was repeated to her: "I would willingly espouse the fair Countess Agnes, but for the four eyes."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Albert	Albert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	13	compound	_	_
13	Nurnberg	Nurnberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	espouse	espouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	Agnes	Agnes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past · passive |  | a remark of the Earl and Albert | Albert |  | day | the Handsome von Nurnberg *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 2 | **espouse** *in a quote* | would | the widow *= widow* | the fair Countess |  |  |  | the four eyes *conj*; willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remark** |  |  | the Earl and Albert |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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