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title: So she dares--for what will not love dare?--to leap over the wide sp… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: So she dares--for what will not love dare?--to leap over the wide space that divides the two rocks, leaving the impress of her feet in the rock, since called the Mägdetrappe. Who acts: Mägdetrappe, wide space. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 20

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So she dares--for what will not love dare?--to leap over the wide space that divides the two rocks, leaving the impress of her feet in the rock, since called the Mägdetrappe.

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**Who acts:** Mägdetrappe, wide space · **What happens:** dare, not love, leap, divide, leave, call · **To what, where:** dare, wide space, two rocks, impress, rock, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, wide space), 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:pg74323:10:20
# text = So she dares--for what will not love dare?--to leap over the wide space that divides the two rocks, leaving the impress of her feet in the rock, since called the Mägdetrappe.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	leap	leap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	impress	impress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mägdetrappe	Mägdetrappe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | present | Mägdetrappe |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **love** | future | Mägdetrappe *not said here* | dare |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leap** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the wide space |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over space=Trajectory |
| 4 | **divide** | present | the wide space | the two rocks |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund |  | the impress of Mägdetrappe's feet |  | the rock |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent impress=Theme in rock=Location |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Mägdetrappe *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **impress** |  |  | Mägdetrappe's feet |  |  |  |  | nom impress «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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