Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 4

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

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Egbert	Egbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 encouraged	nsubj
2	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 braves	nmod:poss
4	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 encouraged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 encouraged	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 climb	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 half	advmod
11	half	halfway	ADV	Typo=Yes	18 fell	nsubj
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 half	goeswith
13	up	up	ADV	_	11 half	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rocks	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rocks	amod
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 half	obj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 encouraged	parataxis
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crushed	cc
22	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 knight	det
24	daring	daring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knight	compound
25	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crushed	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 atoms	case
27	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crushed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 encouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 4