--- title: Later the Staufenburg came to the Earls of Katlenburg, who had their… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Later the Staufenburg came to the Earls of Katlenburg, who had their seat near; and after the extinction of this house it fell into the hands of the mighty Duke Henry the Lion, of Saxony and Brunswick, before whose sword even the powerful Barbarossa trembled, and remained in the possession of his de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/) / 9 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 9 Later the Staufenburg came to the Earls of Katlenburg, who had their seat near; and after the extinction of this house it fell into the hands of the mighty Duke Henry the Lion, of Saxony and Brunswick, before whose sword even the powerful Barbarossa trembled, and remained in the possession of his descendants, several of whom wore the imperial crown. **Who acts:** Staufenburg, seat, powerful Barbarossa · **What happens:** come, have, fall, tremble, remain, wear · **To what, where:** Earls, seat, hands, sword, possession, imperial crown This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Staufenburg, seat, powerful Barbarossa), 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:pg74323:18:9 # text = Later the Staufenburg came to the Earls of Katlenburg, who had their seat near; and after the extinction of this house it fell into the hands of the mighty Duke Henry the Lion, of Saxony and Brunswick, before whose sword even the powerful Barbarossa trembled, and remained in the possession of his descendants, several of whom wore the imperial crown. 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Staufenburg Staufenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earls earl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Katlenburg Katlenburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 near near ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Saxony Saxony PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 Brunswick Brunswick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 before before ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Barbarossa Barbarossa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 trembled tremble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 remained remain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 descendants descendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 conj _ _ 61 of of SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 62 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 63 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 advcl _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 65 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the Staufenburg | | | the Earls of Katlenburg | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to earl=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **have** | past | | Earls's seat | | | | who *nsubj*; near *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | seat | | | the hands of the mighty Duke Henry and the Lion | after the extinction of this house | of Saxony and Brunswick | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location of saxony=Destination | | 4 | **tremble** | past | the powerful Barbarossa | Saxony and Brunswick's sword *not said here* | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | | 5 | **remain** | participle | the Staufenburg *not said here* | | | the possession of Saxony's descendants | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possession=Location | | 6 | **wear** | past | | the imperial crown | | | | whom *nsubj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 7 | **extinguish** | | | this house | | | | | nom extinction «state transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **possess** | | | Saxony's descendants | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/10/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/)