--- title: Also the romantic situation of his cottage satisfied him no longer,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Also the romantic situation of his cottage satisfied him no longer, and when he looked across the Bode to the mighty rock, and the ruins on its top, all sorts of foolish and ambitious thoughts crowded his mind. Who acts: romantic situation, Fisherman, ruins. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (romantic situation, Fisherman, ruins), 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:pg74323:7:77 # text = Also the romantic situation of his cottage satisfied him no longer, and when he looked across the Bode to the mighty rock, and the ruins on its top, all sorts of foolish and ambitious thoughts crowded his mind. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 romantic romantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 satisfied satisfy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 no no ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 across across ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Bode Bode PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 ambitious ambitious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 39 crowded crowd VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **satisfy** | past | the romantic situation of situation's cottage | Fisherman | | | | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 2 | **look** | past | Fisherman | | | | | to the mighty rock; across the Bode | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across bode=Theme | | 3 | **crowd** | past | the ruins on cottage's top | Fisherman's mind | | | | all sorts of foolish thoughts *nsubj* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Destination | | 4 | **sort** | | | foolish thoughts | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **mind** | | Fisherman | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/78/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)