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title: The news spread through all the plains of Germany, from the North Se… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The news spread through all the plains of Germany, from the North Sea to the Alps, and knights and princes flocked to the banks of the Bodethal to learn the extent of the danger in such an attempt, but no man was even able to approach the brink of the fearful chasm. Who acts: news, knights, man. A s
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 62

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The news spread through all the plains of Germany, from the North Sea to the Alps, and knights and princes flocked to the banks of the Bodethal to learn the extent of the danger in such an attempt, but no man was even able to approach the brink of the fearful chasm.

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**Who acts:** news, knights, man · **What happens:** spread, flock, learn, be, approach, extend · **To what, where:** plains, extent, attempt, brink, danger

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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 (news, knights, man), 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:pg74323:2:62
# text = The news spread through all the plains of Germany, from the North Sea to the Alps, and knights and princes flocked to the banks of the Bodethal to learn the extent of the danger in such an attempt, but no man was even able to approach the brink of the fearful chasm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Alps	alp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Bodethal	Bodethal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	40	det:predet	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	even	even	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	chasm	chasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the news |  |  | all plains of Germany |  | from the North Sea; to the Alps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through plain=Location |
| 2 | **flock** | past | knights and princes |  |  |  |  | to the banks of the Bodethal | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | knights and princes *not said here* | the extent of the danger |  | such attempt |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extent=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | no man |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **approach** | to-infinitive | no man *not said here* | the brink of the fearful chasm |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brink=Theme |
| 6 | **extend** |  |  | the danger |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: of=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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