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title: "How wise! how heroic!" was the praise on every lip, while the Bürge… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "How wise! how heroic!" was the praise on every lip, while the Bürgermeister continued his interrupted address: "But we have already experienced the fact that the Arnstein is not easy to seize. Who acts: wise, Bürgermeister, we, Arnstein. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by To
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 23

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"How wise! how heroic!" was the praise on every lip, while the Bürgermeister continued his interrupted address: "But we have already experienced the fact that the Arnstein is not easy to seize.

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**Who acts:** wise, Bürgermeister, we, Arnstein, clerk · **What happens:** be, continue, interrupt, experience, not be, seize · **To what, where:** praise, lip, interrupted address, fact

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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 (wise, Bürgermeister, we, Arnstein), 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:pg74323:14:23
# text = "How wise! how heroic!" was the praise on every lip, while the Bürgermeister continued his interrupted address: "But we have already experienced the fact that the Arnstein is not easy to seize.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Bürgermeister	Bürgermeister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	already	already	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Arnstein	Arnstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | wise | the praise |  | every lip |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the Bürgermeister | clerk's interrupted address |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent address=Theme |
| 3 | **interrupt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **experience** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | the fact |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the Arnstein | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **seize** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Arnstein *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **address** |  | clerk |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication 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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