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title: She is at least as competent to do so as anybody else, A giant virgi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She is at least as competent to do so as anybody else, A giant virgin of the grey primeval times saw from the Mägdesprung her lover on a mountain on the opposite bank. Who acts: Mägdetrappe. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 18

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She is at least as competent to do so as anybody else, A giant virgin of the grey primeval times saw from the Mägdesprung her lover on a mountain on the opposite bank.

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**Who acts:** Mägdetrappe · **What happens:** be, do, see · **To what, where:** least, giant virgin, Mägdesprung

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mägdetrappe), 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:pg74323:10:18
# text = She is at least as competent to do so as anybody else, A giant virgin of the grey primeval times saw from the Mägdesprung her lover on a mountain on the opposite bank.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	competent	competent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Mägdesprung	Mägdesprung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mägdetrappe |  |  | least |  | competent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Mägdetrappe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as anybody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Mägdetrappe *not said here* | a giant virgin |  | the Mägdesprung | time | on a mountain on the opposite bank; Mägdetrappe's lover *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus |

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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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