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title: And where could we have found a better companion than that fellow th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And where could we have found a better companion than that fellow there, out of whose eyes the most charming simplicity and stupidity look, so that a child might deceive him?" Who acts: we, eyes, child. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., par
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 27

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And where could we have found a better companion than that fellow there, out of whose eyes the most charming simplicity and stupidity look, so that a child might deceive him?"

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**Who acts:** we, eyes, child · **What happens:** find, look, deceive · **To what, where:** better companion, lot

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, eyes, child), 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:pg74323:21:27
# text = And where could we have found a better companion than that fellow there, out of whose eyes the most charming simplicity and stupidity look, so that a child might deceive him?"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could · perfect | we | a better companion |  |  |  | than that fellow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **deceive** | might | a child | lot |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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