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title: A wild and lawless knight of the Castle Hainerburg surprised Hildega… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A wild and lawless knight of the Castle Hainerburg surprised Hildegard alone at home, her father and brothers being absent in the terrors of a fire in the city, and carried her off in a deadly swoon to his castle. Who acts: wild knight, father. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains»
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 25

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A wild and lawless knight of the Castle Hainerburg surprised Hildegard alone at home, her father and brothers being absent in the terrors of a fire in the city, and carried her off in a deadly swoon to his castle.

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**Who acts:** wild knight, father · **What happens:** surprise, be, carry off · **To what, where:** Hildegard, home, terrors, happiness, deadly swoon

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild knight, father), 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:pg74323:15:25
# text = A wild and lawless knight of the Castle Hainerburg surprised Hildegard alone at home, her father and brothers being absent in the terrors of a fire in the city, and carried her off in a deadly swoon to his castle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Hainerburg	Hainerburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Hildegard	Hildegard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	terrors	terror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	swoon	swoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surprise** | past | a wild knight of the Castle Hainerburg | Hildegard |  | home |  | alone *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hildegard=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | happiness's father and brothers |  |  | the terrors of a fire in the city |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry off** | past |  | happiness |  | a deadly swoon |  | to knight's castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination |

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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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