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title: He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned the whole place, which made his missing h all the more amusing. Who acts: Hell, whole place. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 11

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He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned the whole place, which made his missing h all the more amusing.

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**Who acts:** Hell, whole place · **What happens:** parade, order, own, make · **To what, where:** Kellner, whole place, missing h

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hell, whole place), 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:pg74323:5:11
# text = He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned the whole place, which made his missing h all the more amusing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	parading	parade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Kellner	Kellner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **parade** | past · perfect · progressive | Hell |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | gerund | Hell *not said here* |  | the Kellner |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kellner=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | past | Hell | the whole place |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | the whole place | Hell's missing h |  |  |  | amusing *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset h=Product |

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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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