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title: The treasurer went joyfully home, dreaming of princely honours, for… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The treasurer went joyfully home, dreaming of princely honours, for had he not still a greater part of the stone in his possession? Who acts: treasurer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 124

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The treasurer went joyfully home, dreaming of princely honours, for had he not still a greater part of the stone in his possession?

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**Who acts:** treasurer · **What happens:** go, dream, have, possess · **To what, where:** treasurer, possession

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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 (treasurer), 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:pg74323:14:125
# text = The treasurer went joyfully home, dreaming of princely honours, for had he not still a greater part of the stone in his possession?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the treasurer |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund | the treasurer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of princely honours | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the treasurer *not said here* | treasurer |  | treasurer's possession |  | a greater part of the stone *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** |  | treasurer |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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