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title: In the Saxon Chronicles we are told that Ludwig, King of the Franks,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Saxon Chronicles we are told that Ludwig, King of the Franks, took Schloss Ballenstedt, and carried away captive the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien. Who acts: Ludwig. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 115

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In the Saxon Chronicles we are told that Ludwig, King of the Franks, took Schloss Ballenstedt, and carried away captive the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien.

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**Who acts:** Ludwig · **What happens:** tell, take, carry away · **To what, where:** we, Saxon Chronicles, Schloss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludwig), 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:pg74323:25:115
# text = In the Saxon Chronicles we are told that Ludwig, King of the Franks, took Schloss Ballenstedt, and carried away captive the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	Ludwig	Ludwig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Franks	frank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
17	Schloss	Schloss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Ballenstedt	Ballenstedt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	dislocated	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Askanien	Askanien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | we |  | the Saxon Chronicles |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | past | Ludwig |  | Schloss |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument schloss=Destination |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | Ludwig *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien *dislocated*; away, captive *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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