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title: Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate brothers out to watch, with the command not to return till the enemy approached. Who acts: Abbot, enemy. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 53

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Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate brothers out to watch, with the command not to return till the enemy approached.

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**Who acts:** Abbot, enemy · **What happens:** fear, send, watch, not return, approach, attack · **To what, where:** attack, unfortunate brothers, enemy

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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 (Abbot, enemy), 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:pg74323:8:53
# text = Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate brothers out to watch, with the command not to return till the enemy approached.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | the Abbot *not said here* | the attack of a enemy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | the unfortunate brothers |  |  |  | once the Abbot; out *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the command | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **approach** | past | the enemy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **attack** |  |  | a enemy |  |  |  |  | nom attack «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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