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title: The Empress Matilda, the wife of Henry the Fowler, endowed it with l… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Empress Matilda, the wife of Henry the Fowler, endowed it with lands, and Kaiser Otto loaded it with favours, so that an enlargement became necessary, and hence an hour's distance down the valley the larger and more magnificent Kloster was built. Who acts: Empress Matilda, Kaiser, enlargement. A
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 15

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The Empress Matilda, the wife of Henry the Fowler, endowed it with lands, and Kaiser Otto loaded it with favours, so that an enlargement became necessary, and hence an hour's distance down the valley the larger and more magnificent Kloster was built.

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**Who acts:** Empress Matilda, Kaiser, enlargement · **What happens:** endow, load, become, build · **To what, where:** Fowler, magnificent Kloster

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empress Matilda, Kaiser, enlargement), 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:pg74323:8:15
# text = The Empress Matilda, the wife of Henry the Fowler, endowed it with lands, and Kaiser Otto loaded it with favours, so that an enlargement became necessary, and hence an hour's distance down the valley the larger and more magnificent Kloster was built.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Matilda	Matilda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	endowed	endow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	enlargement	enlargement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | past | the Empress Matilda | Fowler |  |  |  | with lands; a hour's distance down the valley *obl* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with land=Theme |
| 2 | **load** | past | Kaiser | Fowler |  |  |  | with favours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with favour=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | a enlargement |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | past · passive |  | magnificent Kloster |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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