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title: "My husband," replied the Countess, "would wish this fortress on tha… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "My husband," replied the Countess, "would wish this fortress on that spacious mountain opposite. Who acts: husband, Countess. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, 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 6, sentence 77

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"My husband," replied the Countess, "would wish this fortress on that spacious mountain opposite.

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**Who acts:** husband, Countess · **What happens:** reply, wish · **To what, where:** Countess, fortress, spacious mountain opposite · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Countess), 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:pg74323:23:77
# text = "My husband," replied the Countess, "would wish this fortress on that spacious mountain opposite.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My husband | the Countess |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countess=Topic |
| 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | would | the Countess *not said here* | this fortress |  | spacious mountain opposite  that |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortress=Theme |

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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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