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title: And Fischersche asked further: "'Say on, raven, who knowest all thin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And Fischersche asked further: "'Say on, raven, who knowest all things, if and how the enchantment may be broken." Who acts: Fischersche, raven. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 4

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And Fischersche asked further: "'Say on, raven, who knowest all things, if and how the enchantment may be broken."

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**Who acts:** Fischersche, raven · **What happens:** ask, say, know, break · **To what, where:** things, enchantment · **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 (Fischersche, raven), 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:pg74323:7:4
# text = And Fischersche asked further: "'Say on, raven, who knowest all things, if and how the enchantment may be broken."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Fischersche	Fischersche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Fischersche |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Fischersche *not said here* |  |  |  |  | raven *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | raven | all things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | may · passive |  | the enchantment |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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