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title: "We will storm it!" exclaimed the town clerk, with a look intended t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "We will storm it!" exclaimed the town clerk, with a look intended to be brave. Who acts: We, town clerk. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 22

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"We will storm it!" exclaimed the town clerk, with a look intended to be brave.

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**Who acts:** We, town clerk · **What happens:** storm, exclaim, intend, be · **To what, where:** nest, look · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, town clerk), 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:pg74323:14:22
# text = "We will storm it!" exclaimed the town clerk, with a look intended to be brave.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	storm	storm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **storm** *in a quote* | future | We | nest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the town clerk |  |  |  |  | a look *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **intend** | participle |  | a look *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |

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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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