--- title: True, his astonishment gave place to scornful laughter, and Adam con… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: True, his astonishment gave place to scornful laughter, and Adam concluded to himself not to permit himself to be made a fool of; but as he found, several hours afterwards, that a new robbery had been committed, he decided, nevertheless, to follow the stranger's advice. Who acts: astonishment, Adam, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/) / 2 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 2 True, his astonishment gave place to scornful laughter, and Adam concluded to himself not to permit himself to be made a fool of; but as he found, several hours afterwards, that a new robbery had been committed, he decided, nevertheless, to follow the stranger's advice. **Who acts:** astonishment, Adam, new robbery, his · **What happens:** give, conclude, not permit, make, find, be · **To what, where:** place, scornful laughter, Adam, fool, advice This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment, Adam, new robbery, his), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:23:2 # text = True, his astonishment gave place to scornful laughter, and Adam concluded to himself not to permit himself to be made a fool of; but as he found, several hours afterwards, that a new robbery had been committed, he decided, nevertheless, to follow the stranger's advice. 1 True true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 scornful scornful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 concluded conclude VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 permit permit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 robbery robbery NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 42 committed committed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | his astonishment | place | scornful laughter | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to laughter=Recipient | | 2 | **conclude** | past | Adam | | Adam | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **permit** | to-infinitive | Adam *not said here* | Adam | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | Adam *not said here* | a fool | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 5 | **find** | past | astonishment | | | | hour | afterwards *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past · perfect | a new robbery | | | | | committed *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **decide** | past | astonishment | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **follow** | to-infinitive | astonishment *not said here* | the stranger's advice | | | | nevertheless *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 10 | **astonish** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/3/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/)