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title: The Lady von Falkenstein was once summoned by the _Berggeist_[1] to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lady von Falkenstein was once summoned by the _Berggeist_[1] to attend the Queen of the Gnomes in her extremity. Who acts: Berggeist. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 87

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The Lady von Falkenstein was once summoned by the \_Berggeist\_\[1\] to attend the Queen of the Gnomes in her extremity.

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**Who acts:** Berggeist · **What happens:** summon, attend · **To what, where:** Lady von Falkenstein, Queen, extremity

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (Berggeist), 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:pg74323:9:87
# text = The Lady von Falkenstein was once summoned by the _Berggeist_[1] to attend the Queen of the Gnomes in her extremity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
4	Falkenstein	Falkenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Berggeist	Berggeist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Gnomes	Gnome	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	extremity	extremity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past · passive | the Berggeist | the Lady von Falkenstein |  |  |  | once *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **attend** | to-infinitive | the Berggeist *not said here* |  | the Queen of the Gnomes | Falkenstein's extremity |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queen=Goal |

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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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