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title: The maiden bade him take what he would, for he was so overcome with… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden bade him take what he would, for he was so overcome with astonishment and terror that he could not move. Who acts: ground. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 119

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The maiden bade him take what he would, for he was so overcome with astonishment and terror that he could not move.

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**Who acts:** ground · **What happens:** take, be, not move · **To what, where:** maiden bade, terror

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground), 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:pg74323:10:120
# text = The maiden bade him take what he would, for he was so overcome with astonishment and terror that he could not move.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	overcome	overcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | ground | the maiden bade |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | ground |  |  |  |  | with astonishment and terror; overcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **move** | could | ground | terror *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent terror=Theme |

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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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