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title: They prayed again for strength, and now the walls and towers fell th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They prayed again for strength, and now the walls and towers fell thundering into the moat, for the Virgin had appeared on the battlements encouraging them, and their strength had become superhuman. Who acts: arms, walls, Virgin, battlements. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» b
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 30

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They prayed again for strength, and now the walls and towers fell thundering into the moat, for the Virgin had appeared on the battlements encouraging them, and their strength had become superhuman.

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**Who acts:** arms, walls, Virgin, battlements, strength · **What happens:** pray, fall, thunder, appear, encourage, become · **To what, where:** moat, battlements, arms, superhuman

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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 (arms, walls, Virgin, battlements), 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:pg74323:15:30
# text = They prayed again for strength, and now the walls and towers fell thundering into the moat, for the Virgin had appeared on the battlements encouraging them, and their strength had become superhuman.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	thundering	thunder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	encouraging	encourage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
35	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | again | for strength | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for strength=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the walls and towers |  |  |  | now |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **thunder** | gerund | the walls and towers *not said here* |  |  | the moat |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into moat=Recipient |
| 4 | **appear** | past · perfect | the Virgin |  |  | the battlements |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on battlement=Location |
| 5 | **encourage** | gerund | the battlements *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | past · perfect | arms's strength | superhuman |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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