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title: Her ardent love draws her to him, but she cannot climb the steep roc… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Her ardent love draws her to him, but she cannot climb the steep rocks, nor swim the Selke, then a torrent. Who acts: ardent love, Mägdetrappe. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 19

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Her ardent love draws her to him, but she cannot climb the steep rocks, nor swim the Selke, then a torrent.

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**Who acts:** ardent love, Mägdetrappe · **What happens:** draw, not climb, swim, love · **To what, where:** Mägdetrappe, Alexisbad, steep rocks, Selke

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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 (ardent love, 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:pg74323:10:19
# text = Her ardent love draws her to him, but she cannot climb the steep rocks, nor swim the Selke, then a torrent.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Selke	Selke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present | Mägdetrappe's ardent love | Mägdetrappe | Alexisbad |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **climb** | can | Mägdetrappe | the steep rocks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rock=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | present | Mägdetrappe's ardent love *not said here* | the Selke |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location selke=Theme |
| 4 | **love** |  | Mägdetrappe |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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