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title: But he stood as if transfixed, as he beheld the stag he wished for--… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But he stood as if transfixed, as he beheld the stag he wished for--the golden stag with great diamond eyes--lying in the grass beside him! Who acts: guest. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 96

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But he stood as if transfixed, as he beheld the stag he wished for--the golden stag with great diamond eyes--lying in the grass beside him!

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**Who acts:** guest · **What happens:** stand, transfix, behold, wish, lie · **To what, where:** stag, grass

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest), 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:pg74323:15:96
# text = But he stood as if transfixed, as he beheld the stag he wished for--the golden stag with great diamond eyes--lying in the grass beside him!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	transfixed	transfix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | guest |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **transfix** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **behold** | past | guest | the stag and the golden stag with great diamond eyes |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wish** | past | guest | the stag and the golden stag with great diamond eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stag=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | guest *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | beside guest | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |

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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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