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title: Prince Otto only shrugged his shoulder, and replied, "Only when you… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Otto only shrugged his shoulder, and replied, "Only when you graciously condescend to take something from my boots." Who acts: Prince, you. 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 eve
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 67

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Prince Otto only shrugged his shoulder, and replied, "Only when you graciously condescend to take something from my boots."

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**Who acts:** Prince, you · **What happens:** shrug, reply, condescend, take · **To what, where:** shoulder, something, boots · **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 (Prince, you), 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:pg74323:13:67
# text = Prince Otto only shrugged his shoulder, and replied, "Only when you graciously condescend to take something from my boots."
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shrugged	shrug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	condescend	condescend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrug** | past | Prince | prince's shoulder |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condescend** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | graciously *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  | my boots |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from boot=Initial\_Location |

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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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