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title: Anna heard with surprise this puzzling communication, and after many… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Anna heard with surprise this puzzling communication, and after many suppositions on the subject she went out shaking her head, to direct household matters, and Adam remained alone with his vexation. Who acts: Anna, much, household, Adam. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by To
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 97

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Anna heard with surprise this puzzling communication, and after many suppositions on the subject she went out shaking her head, to direct household matters, and Adam remained alone with his vexation.

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**Who acts:** Anna, much, household, Adam · **What happens:** hear, puzzle, go out, shake, direct, matter · **To what, where:** puzzling communication, head

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna, much, household, Adam), 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:pg74323:22:97
# text = Anna heard with surprise this puzzling communication, and after many suppositions on the subject she went out shaking her head, to direct household matters, and Adam remained alone with his vexation.
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	puzzling	puzzle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	communication	communication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	suppositions	supposition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hear** | past | Anna | this puzzling communication |  |  |  | with surprise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer communication=Stimulus |
| 2 | **puzzle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go out** | past | much |  |  |  | after many suppositions on the subject | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** | gerund | much *not said here* | much's head |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **direct** | to-infinitive | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **matter** | present | household |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **remain** | past | Adam |  |  |  |  | with Adam's vexation; alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **vex** |  | Adam |  |  |  |  |  | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: 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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