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title: Baron von Stammnitz had studied English, and began at once to edify… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Baron von Stammnitz had studied English, and began at once to edify May by airing it. 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 123

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Baron von Stammnitz had studied English, and began at once to edify May by airing it.

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**What happens:** study, begin, edify, air · **To what, where:** Baron, smattering

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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: 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:pg74323:4:123
# text = Baron von Stammnitz had studied English, and began at once to edify May by airing it.
1	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	1	flat	_	_
3	Stammnitz	Stammnitz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	edify	edify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	airing	air	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | past · perfect · passive |  | Baron |  |  |  | English *obj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme english=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **edify** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | may |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **air** | gerund |  | smattering |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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