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title: She had recognised the Burggeist, who appeared seldom, but always br… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She had recognised the Burggeist, who appeared seldom, but always brought happiness with him, and inquired in a gentle voice: Who acts: Countess, Burggeist. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 70

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She had recognised the Burggeist, who appeared seldom, but always brought happiness with him, and inquired in a gentle voice:

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**Who acts:** Countess, Burggeist · **What happens:** recognise, appear, bring, inquire · **To what, where:** happiness, gentle voice

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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 (Countess, Burggeist), 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:pg74323:23:70
# text = She had recognised the Burggeist, who appeared seldom, but always brought happiness with him, and inquired in a gentle voice:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Burggeist	Burggeist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past · perfect | Countess |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the Burggeist |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; seldom *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | participle | the Burggeist *not said here* | happiness |  |  |  | with Burggeist; always *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle | Countess *not said here* |  |  | a gentle voice |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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