---
title: At break of day the monk opened the fatal roll. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At break of day the monk opened the fatal roll. Who acts: monk. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/) / 14

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At break of day the monk opened the fatal roll.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** monk · **What happens:** open, break · **To what, where:** fatal roll, break, day

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:15:14
# text = At break of day the monk opened the fatal roll.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the monk | the fatal roll |  | break of day |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme at break=Location |
| 2 | **break** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/15/)
- ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/)