--- title: "Yes, centuries!" exclaimed a scorn-laughing voice, and the Waldfrau… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes, centuries!" exclaimed a scorn-laughing voice, and the Waldfrau stood before them; "that is thy punishment for thy criminal deed. Who acts: laughing voice, Waldfrau, that. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/59/) [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/) / 59 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 59 "Yes, centuries!" exclaimed a scorn-laughing voice, and the Waldfrau stood before them; "that is thy punishment for thy criminal deed. **Who acts:** laughing voice, Waldfrau, that · **What happens:** exclaim, laugh, stand, be · **To what, where:** punishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (laughing voice, Waldfrau, that), 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:pg74323:7:59 # text = "Yes, centuries!" exclaimed a scorn-laughing voice, and the Waldfrau stood before them; "that is thy punishment for thy criminal deed. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Waldfrau Waldfrau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 criminal criminal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 deed deed NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | a laughing voice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | scorn *compound* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stand** | past | the Waldfrau | | | | before walls *= wall* | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | thy punishment | | | | for thy criminal deed; thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/60/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)