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title: The following day Mr. Samper received a letter from the Mac Stabs, c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The following day Mr. Samper received a letter from the Mac Stabs, claiming damages for a broken Sèvres vase and an injured piano, amounting to four pounds--all, of course, absolutely false. Who acts: following day. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 74

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The following day Mr. Samper received a letter from the Mac Stabs, claiming damages for a broken Sèvres vase and an injured piano, amounting to four pounds--all, of course, absolutely false.

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**Who acts:** following day · **What happens:** follow, receive, claim, break, injure, amount · **To what, where:** letter, Mac Stabs, damages

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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 (following day), 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:pg74323:5:74
# text = The following day Mr. Samper received a letter from the Mac Stabs, claiming damages for a broken Sèvres vase and an injured piano, amounting to four pounds--all, of course, absolutely false.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Samper	Samper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Stabs	Stab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	damages	damage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	Sèvres	Sèvres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the following day | a letter |  | the Mac Stabs |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from stab=Source |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | the following day *not said here* | damages |  |  |  | for a broken Sèvres vase and a injured piano | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent damage=Topic |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **injure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **amount** | gerund | the following day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to four pounds; of course | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to pound=Value |

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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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