--- title: He told her she was to take a sufficient number of them to make hers… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: He told her she was to take a sufficient number of them to make herself and her sick husband comfortable, and to provide for her children, and with the rest she was to build a church in Grund; but by no means to forget the healing plant. Who acts: king, Grund, no. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Grund, no), 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:pg74323:25:58 # text = He told her she was to take a sufficient number of them to make herself and her sick husband comfortable, and to provide for her children, and with the rest she was to build a church in Grund; but by no means to forget the healing plant. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sufficient sufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Grund Grund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 by by SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 nsubj _ _ 45 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 ccomp _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king | | Grund | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | Grund | | | | | a sufficient number of cones *obj*; take *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Grund *not said here* | Grund | | | | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | | 4 | **provide** | to-infinitive | Grund *not said here* | | | | | for Grund's children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for child=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | Grund | | | | | with the rest; a church *obj*; build *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | no | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **forget** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the healing plant | | | | | tree rules | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/59/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/25/)