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title: He wanted Rinderbraten and Kartoffel--roast beef and potatoes! — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted Rinderbraten and Kartoffel--roast beef and potatoes! Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, 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 4, sentence 6

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He wanted Rinderbraten and Kartoffel--roast beef and potatoes!

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** Rinderbraten

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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 (gentleman), 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:pg74323:5:6
# text = He wanted Rinderbraten and Kartoffel--roast beef and potatoes!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Rinderbraten	Rinderbraten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Kartoffel	Kartoffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	roast	roast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | gentleman | Rinderbraten and Kartoffel |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rinderbraten=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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