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title: Egbert encouraged his braves to climb it; but when half way up, the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Egbert encouraged his braves to climb it; but when half way up, the giant rocks fell upon them and crushed every daring knight to atoms. Who acts: Egbert. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 4

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Egbert encouraged his braves to climb it; but when half way up, the giant rocks fell upon them and crushed every daring knight to atoms.

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**Who acts:** Egbert · **What happens:** encourage, climb, fall, crush · **To what, where:** braves, way, daring knight

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg74323:3:4
# text = Egbert encouraged his braves to climb it; but when half way up, the giant rocks fell upon them and crushed every daring knight to atoms.
1	Egbert	Egbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	half	halfway	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	goeswith	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	crushed	crush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	daring	daring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past | Egbert | barrier's braves |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Theme |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive | Egbert *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon lovers *= lover* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 4 | **crush** | past |  | every daring knight |  |  |  | to atoms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent knight=Patient to atom=Result |

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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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