--- title: Finally the fisherman replied, "Yes, the fulfilment of my wish is de… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Finally the fisherman replied, "Yes, the fulfilment of my wish is delightful, and the Treseburg is a right stately Schloss; but I should like, as my ancestors once ruled there, to be transplanted into the position of my ancestor who lived there five hundred years ago, in exactly the same circumstanc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/99/) [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/) / 99 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 99 Finally the fisherman replied, "Yes, the fulfilment of my wish is delightful, and the Treseburg is a right stately Schloss; but I should like, as my ancestors once ruled there, to be transplanted into the position of my ancestor who lived there five hundred years ago, in exactly the same circumstances." **Who acts:** fisherman, fulfilment, Treseburg, ancestors, ancestor, my · **What happens:** reply, be, like, rule, transplant, live · **To what, where:** right stately Schloss, position, wish · **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 (fisherman, fulfilment, Treseburg, ancestors), 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:pg74323:7:99 # text = Finally the fisherman replied, "Yes, the fulfilment of my wish is delightful, and the Treseburg is a right stately Schloss; but I should like, as my ancestors once ruled there, to be transplanted into the position of my ancestor who lived there five hundred years ago, in exactly the same circumstances." 1 Finally finally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fulfilment fulfilment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Treseburg Treseburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Schloss schloss NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 advmod _ _ 35 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 transplanted transplant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 50 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 compound _ _ 51 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nummod _ _ 52 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl:unmarked _ _ 53 ago ago ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 56 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 circumstances circumstance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the fisherman | | | | | finally *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the fulfilment of my wish | | | | | delightful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Treseburg | a right stately Schloss | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the fisherman *= fisherman* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **rule** *in a quote* | past | my ancestors | | | there | | once *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **transplant** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the fisherman *= fisherman* *not said here* | | | the position of my ancestor | | in the same circumstances | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 7 | **live** *in a quote* | past | my ancestor | | | there | | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | | | my wish | | | | | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **wish** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/100/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)