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title: But all these tales must be only fancies, and the benevolent fairies… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But all these tales must be only fancies, and the benevolent fairies in these mountains, who used to help the poor when they were near despair, are most likely long since gone, or else my trouble would have brought them to my relief. Who acts: mountains, my. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the H
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 69

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But all these tales must be only fancies, and the benevolent fairies in these mountains, who used to help the poor when they were near despair, are most likely long since gone, or else my trouble would have brought them to my relief.

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**Who acts:** mountains, my · **What happens:** be, use, help, bring, trouble · **To what, where:** only fancies, tales, poor, near despair, trouble

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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 (mountains, my), 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:pg74323:14:70
# text = But all these tales must be only fancies, and the benevolent fairies in these mountains, who used to help the poor when they were near despair, are most likely long since gone, or else my trouble would have brought them to my relief.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
34	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	else	else	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux	_	_
43	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must |  | only fancies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past |  | all tales and the benevolent fairies in this mountains |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive |  | the poor |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is a** | past | mountains *= mountain* | near despair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | since gone | likely, long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bring** | would · perfect · passive |  | my trouble |  |  |  | to my relief; mountains *= mountain* *obj*; else *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme |
| 7 | **trouble** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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