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title: "What, did I say a hundred Thaler?" replied the Jew, for he thought… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "What, did I say a hundred Thaler?" replied the Jew, for he thought the apparent anger of the seller had another cause. " Who acts: Jew, much, apparent anger, seller. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 93

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"What, did I say a hundred Thaler?" replied the Jew, for he thought the apparent anger of the seller had another cause. "

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**Who acts:** Jew, much, apparent anger, seller · **What happens:** say, reply, think, have, anger · **To what, where:** hundred Thaler, cause · **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 (Jew, much, apparent anger, seller), 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:pg74323:14:94
# text = "What, did I say a hundred Thaler?" replied the Jew, for he thought the apparent anger of the seller had another cause. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Thaler	thaler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Jew *= jew* | hundred Thaler |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thaler=Manner |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | the Jew |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the apparent anger of the seller | another cause |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |
| 5 | **anger** |  | the seller |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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