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title: Vexed, he threw the bell aside, commanded his sixteen-years-old appr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Vexed, he threw the bell aside, commanded his sixteen-years-old apprentice to prepare everything for a new cast on a certain day, so soon as he returned, and then departed to visit his father, who was also a bell-founder, to relate his failure and ask his advice. Who acts: Stolberg, father. A senten
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 51

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Vexed, he threw the bell aside, commanded his sixteen-years-old apprentice to prepare everything for a new cast on a certain day, so soon as he returned, and then departed to visit his father, who was also a bell-founder, to relate his failure and ask his advice.

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**Who acts:** Stolberg, father · **What happens:** vex, throw, command, prepare, return, depart · **To what, where:** bell, old apprentice, everything, father, bell founder, failure · **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 (Stolberg, father), 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:pg74323:21:51
# text = Vexed, he threw the bell aside, commanded his sixteen-years-old apprentice to prepare everything for a new cast on a certain day, so soon as he returned, and then departed to visit his father, who was also a bell-founder, to relate his failure and ask his advice.
1	Vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
45	also	also	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | participle | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Stolberg | the bell |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme |
| 3 | **command** | past | Stolberg *not said here* | old apprentice |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent apprentice=Eventuality |
| 4 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | Stolberg *not said here* | everything |  |  | day | for a new cast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for cast=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **return** | past | Stolberg |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **depart** | past | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Stolberg *not said here* | Stolberg's father and a bell founder |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Stolberg's father and a bell founder | a bell founder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **relate** | to-infinitive | Stolberg *not said here* | Stolberg's failure |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme |
| 10 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Stolberg *not said here* | Stolberg's advice |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
| 11 | **fail** |  | Stolberg |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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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