---
title: Banished into the earth, shut up in a cave, the entrance guarded by… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Banished into the earth, shut up in a cave, the entrance guarded by malicious cobolds, the wretched Ruma sought to reach Romar, and a succession of cavings in proves her efforts to set herself free; but her watchful father always thrust her back into the depths of the earth. Who acts: wretched Ruma,
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/36/)

<!-- 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/) / 36

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 36

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Banished into the earth, shut up in a cave, the entrance guarded by malicious cobolds, the wretched Ruma sought to reach Romar, and a succession of cavings in proves her efforts to set herself free; but her watchful father always thrust her back into the depths of the earth.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wretched Ruma, cavings, watchful father · **What happens:** banish, shut up, guard, seek, reach, prove · **To what, where:** succession, earth, cave, entrance, Romar, efforts

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretched Ruma, cavings, watchful father), 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:pg74323:16:37
# text = Banished into the earth, shut up in a cave, the entrance guarded by malicious cobolds, the wretched Ruma sought to reach Romar, and a succession of cavings in proves her efforts to set herself free; but her watchful father always thrust her back into the depths of the earth.
1	Banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cobolds	cobold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Ruma	Ruma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	Romar	Romar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cavings	caving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	_
39	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	watchful	watchful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	46	advmod	_	_
46	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | participle |  | a succession of cavings |  | the earth |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shut up** | participle |  | the earth *not said here* |  | a cave and the entrance |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **guard** | participle |  | the entrance *not said here* |  |  |  | by malicious cobolds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | past | the wretched Ruma | a cave and the entrance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wretched Ruma *not said here* | Romar |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent romar=Theme |
| 6 | **prove** | present | cavings *not said here* | cave's efforts |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme |
| 7 | **set** | to-infinitive | cavings *not said here* | cave |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result |
| 8 | **thrust back** | past | cave's watchful father | cave |  | the depths of the earth |  | always *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

<!-- .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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/35/)
- next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/37/)
- ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/)