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title: The finder almost lost his equilibrium, while Bergmann put his hand… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The finder almost lost his equilibrium, while Bergmann put his hand to his head to see if it stood in the right place. " Who acts: finder, Bergmann, hand. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 105

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The finder almost lost his equilibrium, while Bergmann put his hand to his head to see if it stood in the right place. "

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**Who acts:** finder, Bergmann, hand · **What happens:** lose, put, see, stand · **To what, where:** equilibrium, hand, right place

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finder, Bergmann, hand), 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:pg74323:14:106
# text = The finder almost lost his equilibrium, while Bergmann put his hand to his head to see if it stood in the right place. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lost	lose	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	equilibrium	equilibrium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Bergmann	Bergmann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the finder | finder's equilibrium |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equilibrium=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | past | Bergmann | finder's hand |  |  |  | to finder's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Bergmann *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | hand |  |  | the right place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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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