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title: "The third time it will surely fall on the fellow," thought the stra… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The third time it will surely fall on the fellow," thought the stranger to himself, and began under all sorts of excuses to shuffle again. Who acts: third time, stranger. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 33

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"The third time it will surely fall on the fellow," thought the stranger to himself, and began under all sorts of excuses to shuffle again.

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**Who acts:** third time, stranger · **What happens:** fall, think, begin, shuffle, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, excuses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (third time, stranger), 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:pg74323:21:33
# text = "The third time it will surely fall on the fellow," thought the stranger to himself, and began under all sorts of excuses to shuffle again.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | future | the third time |  |  |  |  | on the fellow; eldest *= eld* *nsubj*; surely *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fellow=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past |  |  |  | all sorts of excuses |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shuffle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | excuses |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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