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title: Suddenly it began to be reported at Court that Henry had bridged ove… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly it began to be reported at Court that Henry had bridged over the cleft between himself and his high-born wife. Who acts: firmness. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 4

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Suddenly it began to be reported at Court that Henry had bridged over the cleft between himself and his high-born wife.

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**Who acts:** firmness · **What happens:** begin, report, bridge, bear · **To what, where:** Court, Henry, cleft

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firmness), 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:pg74323:19:4
# text = Suddenly it began to be reported at Court that Henry had bridged over the cleft between himself and his high-born wife.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bridged	bridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | firmness |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **report** | to-infinitive · passive | firmness *not said here* |  |  | Court |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **bridge** | past · perfect · passive |  | Henry |  | the cleft between Henry |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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