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title: "My greatest wish," replied the fisherman, "is to be set back five h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "My greatest wish," replied the fisherman, "is to be set back five hundred years, in order that, instead of that heap of ruins across there, the Treseburg might raise its proud battlements and tower." Who acts: greatest wish, Treseburg, My. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 91

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"My greatest wish," replied the fisherman, "is to be set back five hundred years, in order that, instead of that heap of ruins across there, the Treseburg might raise its proud battlements and tower."

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**Who acts:** greatest wish, Treseburg, My · **What happens:** reply, set back, raise, wish · **To what, where:** fisherman, order, proud battlements · **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 (greatest wish, Treseburg, My), 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:pg74323:7:91
# text = "My greatest wish," replied the fisherman, "is to be set back five hundred years, in order that, instead of that heap of ruins across there, the Treseburg might raise its proud battlements and tower."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	across	across	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My greatest wish | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set back** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  | order  that | year |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in order=Destination |
| 3 | **raise** *in a quote* | might | the Treseburg | wish's proud battlements and tower |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battlement=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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