--- title: They laughed to themselves, and held the whole story for a dream, sa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: They laughed to themselves, and held the whole story for a dream, save one brother, who found something very remarkable in it, and when he had a leisure hour he climbed the rock where the Treseburg had stood, observed the direction of the walls and the moat, and removed the moss, underbrush, and tho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/) / 132 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 132 They laughed to themselves, and held the whole story for a dream, save one brother, who found something very remarkable in it, and when he had a leisure hour he climbed the rock where the Treseburg had stood, observed the direction of the walls and the moat, and removed the moss, underbrush, and thorns. **Who acts:** wife, one brother, Graumännchen, Treseburg · **What happens:** laugh, hold, save, find, have, climb · **To what, where:** wife, whole story, one brother, something, rock, direction 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 (wife, one brother, Graumännchen, Treseburg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:7:132 # text = They laughed to themselves, and held the whole story for a dream, save one brother, who found something very remarkable in it, and when he had a leisure hour he climbed the rock where the Treseburg had stood, observed the direction of the walls and the moat, and removed the moss, underbrush, and thorns. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 remarkable remarkable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 leisure leisure NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Treseburg Treseburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 stood stand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 moat moat NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 underbrush underbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | wife | | wife | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient | | 2 | **hold** | past | wife *not said here* | the whole story | | | | for a dream | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 3 | **save** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | one brother | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | one brother | something | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | Graumännchen | | | | hour | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **climb** | past | Graumännchen | the rock | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rock=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | past · perfect | the Treseburg | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **observe** | past | Graumännchen *not said here* | the direction of the walls and the moat | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent direction=Topic | | 9 | **remove** | past | | the moss and underbrush | | | | thorns *obl* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/133/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)