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title: The report of her charms attracted the attention of the brave Egbert… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The report of her charms attracted the attention of the brave Egbert, who had built on the Klus near Halberstadt a strong castle. Who acts: report, attention, brave Egbert. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 138

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The report of her charms attracted the attention of the brave Egbert, who had built on the Klus near Halberstadt a strong castle.

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**Who acts:** report, attention, brave Egbert · **What happens:** attract, build, report, attend · **To what, where:** attention, strong castle, Klus, charms

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (report, attention, brave Egbert), 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:pg74323:2:138
# text = The report of her charms attracted the attention of the brave Egbert, who had built on the Klus near Halberstadt a strong castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Egbert	Egbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Klus	Klus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Halberstadt	Halberstadt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past | the report of report's charms | the attention of the brave Egbert |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past · perfect | the attention of the brave Egbert | a strong castle |  | the Klus near Halberstadt |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on klus=Source |
| 3 | **report** |  |  | report's charms |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **attend** |  | the brave Egbert |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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