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title: Graumännchen stood by him, pressed his hand, and said with friendly… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Graumännchen stood by him, pressed his hand, and said with friendly smile: "Willst thou be henceforth contented, or hast thou still another wish?" Who acts: Graumännchen. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 126

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Graumännchen stood by him, pressed his hand, and said with friendly smile: "Willst thou be henceforth contented, or hast thou still another wish?"

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**Who acts:** Graumännchen · **What happens:** stand, press, say, content, have · **To what, where:** hand, Willst, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen), 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:pg74323:7:126
# text = Graumännchen stood by him, pressed his hand, and said with friendly smile: "Willst thou be henceforth contented, or hast thou still another wish?"
1	Graumännchen	Graumännchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Willst	Willst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Graumännchen |  |  |  |  | by Ritter | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
| 2 | **press** | past |  | Graumännchen's hand |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | with friendly smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner |
| 4 | **content** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | Willst |  |  |  | thou *nsubj:pass*; henceforth *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | thou |  |  |  | another wish *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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