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title: Huldigunde liked this Prince, and commanded almonds to be handed him. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Huldigunde liked this Prince, and commanded almonds to be handed him. Who acts: Huldigunde. 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 62

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Huldigunde liked this Prince, and commanded almonds to be handed him.

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**Who acts:** Huldigunde · **What happens:** like, command, hand · **To what, where:** Prince, almonds · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huldigunde), 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:pg74323:13:62
# text = Huldigunde liked this Prince, and commanded almonds to be handed him.
1	Huldigunde	Huldigunde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | Huldigunde | this Prince |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | Huldigunde *not said here* | almonds |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent almond=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hand** | to-infinitive · passive | Huldigunde *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: he=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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