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title: But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything, who was there to forbid it? Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, 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 12, sentence 52

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But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything, who was there to forbid it?

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** choose, hand, be, forbid · **To what, where:** daughter, anything, Kaiser

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg74323:13:52
# text = But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything, who was there to forbid it?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | the Kaiser's daughter | daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** | to-infinitive | the Kaiser's daughter *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **forbid** | to-infinitive |  | Kaiser |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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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