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title: The Ritter summons all his retainers with the horn, and they storm t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ritter summons all his retainers with the horn, and they storm through the forest whole nights and days, but of the lost child no trace. Who acts: Ritter, retainers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 30

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The Ritter summons all his retainers with the horn, and they storm through the forest whole nights and days, but of the lost child no trace.

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**Who acts:** Ritter, retainers · **What happens:** summon, storm, lose · **To what, where:** retainers

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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 (Ritter, retainers), 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:pg74323:10:30
# text = The Ritter summons all his retainers with the horn, and they storm through the forest whole nights and days, but of the lost child no trace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ritter	ritter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	summons	summon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	retainers	retainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	storm	storm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | present | the Ritter | Ritter's retainers |  |  |  | with the horn; no child trace *parataxis* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retainer=Recipient |
| 2 | **storm** | present | retainers *= retainer* |  |  |  | night |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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