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title: The inhuman treatment of this monster increased daily, and no courti… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The inhuman treatment of this monster increased daily, and no courtier dared to defend the unhappy Princess against his brutality. Who acts: inhuman treatment, courtier. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 54

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The inhuman treatment of this monster increased daily, and no courtier dared to defend the unhappy Princess against his brutality.

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**Who acts:** inhuman treatment, courtier · **What happens:** increase, dare, defend, treat · **To what, where:** unhappy Princess, monster

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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 (inhuman treatment, courtier), 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:pg74323:3:54
# text = The inhuman treatment of this monster increased daily, and no courtier dared to defend the unhappy Princess against his brutality.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brutality	brutality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **increase** | past | the inhuman treatment of this monster |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dare** | past | no courtier |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | no courtier *not said here* |  | the unhappy Princess |  |  | against courtier's brutality | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary against brutality=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** |  |  | this monster |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act 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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