--- title: "Well," said Levi, after having put his spectacles again on his nose… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "Well," said Levi, after having put his spectacles again on his nose, and examining the stone carefully, "if I am to give my honest opinion, it is worth three kingdoms." Who acts: Levi, stone, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Levi, stone, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:14:105 # text = "Well," said Levi, after having put his spectacles again on his nose, and examining the stone carefully, "if I am to give my honest opinion, it is worth three kingdoms." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Levi Levi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 aux _ _ 10 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 spectacles spectacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 examining examine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Levi | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | gerund · perfect | Levi *not said here* | Levi's spectacles | | Levi's nose | again | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme on nose=Destination | | 3 | **examine** | gerund | Levi *not said here* | the stone | | | | worth three kingdoms *obl*; carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | stone *not said here* | my honest opinion | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | stone | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **opine** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/105/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/)