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title: Schlosser was as if paralysed, and could scarcely drag himself to th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Schlosser was as if paralysed, and could scarcely drag himself to the village near by. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 42

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Schlosser was as if paralysed, and could scarcely drag himself to the village near by.

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**What happens:** paralyse, drag · **To what, where:** Schlosser, village

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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: 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:pg74323:21:42
# text = Schlosser was as if paralysed, and could scarcely drag himself to the village near by.
1	Schlosser	Schlosser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	paralysed	paralyse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	drag	drag	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **paralyse** | past · passive |  | Schlosser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drag** | could |  | Schlosser |  | the village |  | scarcely *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to village=Destination |

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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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