--- title: Mother and children were provided with every comfort, and soon after… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Mother and children were provided with every comfort, and soon after they went to live in Aschersleben, for they could not be happy among people who had refused assistance in their need but fawned upon them now they were become rich. Who acts: friends, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, people), 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:pg74323:14:112 # text = Mother and children were provided with every comfort, and soon after they went to live in Aschersleben, for they could not be happy among people who had refused assistance in their need but fawned upon them now they were become rich. 1 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 provided provide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Aschersleben Aschersleben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 26 among among ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 refused refuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 fawned fawn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 43 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **provide** | past · passive | | Mother and children | | | | with every comfort | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with comfort=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | soon *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | Aschersleben | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in aschersleben=Location | | 4 | **not** **is** | could | friends *= friend* | | | | | among people; happy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **refuse** | past · perfect | people | assistance in friends's need | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fawn** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | | | upon friends *= friend* | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **become** | past · passive | | friends *= friend* | | | now | rich *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 8 | **need** | | friends *= friend* | | | | | | nom need «state transitive»: 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 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/112/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/)