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title: How wise! how mild! how forbearing!" shouted the assembly. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: How wise! how mild! how forbearing!" shouted the assembly. 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 31

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How wise! how mild! how forbearing!" shouted the assembly.

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**What happens:** forbear, shout · **To what, where:** assembly

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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: 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:pg74323:14:32
# text = How wise! how mild! how forbearing!" shouted the assembly.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	forbearing	forbear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the assembly |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Topic |

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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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