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title: The Berggeist now tormented his unhappy daughter every hour to give… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Berggeist now tormented his unhappy daughter every hour to give up her husband. Who acts: Berggeist. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, 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 15, sentence 34

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The Berggeist now tormented his unhappy daughter every hour to give up her husband.

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**Who acts:** Berggeist · **What happens:** torment, give up · **To what, where:** unhappy daughter, husband

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Berggeist), 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:pg74323:16:35
# text = The Berggeist now tormented his unhappy daughter every hour to give up her husband.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Berggeist	Berggeist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	tormented	torment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **torment** | past | the Berggeist | Berggeist's unhappy daughter |  |  | now; hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus daughter=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give up** | to-infinitive | the Berggeist *not said here* | child's husband |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Source |

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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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