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title: In the forester's house in Grund lived in the olden days a forester… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the forester's house in Grund lived in the olden days a forester who had lost his wife early, and had an only son, a good-hearted youth, only somewhat over-inquisitive and indiscreet. Who acts: forester. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale.,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 60

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In the forester's house in Grund lived in the olden days a forester who had lost his wife early, and had an only son, a good-hearted youth, only somewhat over-inquisitive and indiscreet.

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**Who acts:** forester · **What happens:** live, lose, have · **To what, where:** house, wife, only son

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forester), 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:pg74323:25:60
# text = In the forester's house in Grund lived in the olden days a forester who had lost his wife early, and had an only son, a good-hearted youth, only somewhat over-inquisitive and indiscreet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Grund	Grund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	over-inquisitive	over-inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	appos	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	indiscreet	indiscreet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the forester's house in Grund | day |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | a forester | man's wife |  |  |  | early *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | a only son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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