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title: She soon found, however, that he was possessed of much finer cultiva… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She soon found, however, that he was possessed of much finer cultivated hair and moustache than mind. Who acts: hostess. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 120

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She soon found, however, that he was possessed of much finer cultivated hair and moustache than mind.

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**Who acts:** hostess · **What happens:** find, possess, cultivate · **To what, where:** Stammnitz

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostess), 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:pg74323:4:120
# text = She soon found, however, that he was possessed of much finer cultivated hair and moustache than mind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finer	finer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	moustache	moustache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | hostess |  |  |  |  | however, soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **possess** | past · passive |  | Stammnitz |  |  |  | of much finer  cultivated hair and moustache than mind | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **cultivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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