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title: They proved to be more valuable than he had hoped, and the jeweller… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They proved to be more valuable than he had hoped, and the jeweller begged him to sell to no one but himself. Who acts: pocket, Tidian, jeweller. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 100

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They proved to be more valuable than he had hoped, and the jeweller begged him to sell to no one but himself.

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**Who acts:** pocket, Tidian, jeweller · **What happens:** prove, be, hope, beg, sell · **To what, where:** Tidian, one

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pocket, Tidian, jeweller), 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:pg74323:9:100
# text = They proved to be more valuable than he had hoped, and the jeweller begged him to sell to no one but himself.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jeweller	jeweller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | pocket |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | pocket *not said here* |  |  |  |  | valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | past · perfect | Tidian |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the jeweller |  | Tidian |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the jeweller *not said here* |  | no one  Tidian |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |

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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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