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title: Three of these leaned against the wall, and only the Earl von Klette… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Three of these leaned against the wall, and only the Earl von Klettenberg stood upright; to him, therefore, the victory was awarded. Who acts: Earl von Klettenberg. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 98

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Three of these leaned against the wall, and only the Earl von Klettenberg stood upright; to him, therefore, the victory was awarded.

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**Who acts:** Earl von Klettenberg · **What happens:** lean, stand, award · **To what, where:** Three, wall, Klettenberg

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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 (Earl von Klettenberg), 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:pg74323:25:98
# text = Three of these leaned against the wall, and only the Earl von Klettenberg stood upright; to him, therefore, the victory was awarded.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	leaned	lean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Klettenberg	Klettenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | participle · passive |  | Three of these |  | the wall |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against wall=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the Earl von Klettenberg |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **award** | past · passive |  | Klettenberg |  |  |  | the victory *nsubj:pass*; therefore *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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