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title: At last, after long years, she succeeded, by a subterranean way, in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after long years, she succeeded, by a subterranean way, in escaping from her father's dominions, as a full stream to spring into the light of day, and at a time when he, by the decree of an inscrutable destiny, had been attacked by a sort of torpor, she reached her old residence, the Nymph'
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 37

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At last, after long years, she succeeded, by a subterranean way, in escaping from her father's dominions, as a full stream to spring into the light of day, and at a time when he, by the decree of an inscrutable destiny, had been attacked by a sort of torpor, she reached her old residence, the Nymph's lake, and was reunited to her faithful husband.

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**Who acts:** cave, sort, inscrutable destiny · **What happens:** succeed, escape, spring, attack, reach, reunite · **To what, where:** dominions, light, Father, old residence, day, torpor

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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 (cave, sort, inscrutable destiny), 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:pg74323:16:38
# text = At last, after long years, she succeeded, by a subterranean way, in escaping from her father's dominions, as a full stream to spring into the light of day, and at a time when he, by the decree of an inscrutable destiny, had been attacked by a sort of torpor, she reached her old residence, the Nymph's lake, and was reunited to her faithful husband.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	inscrutable	inscrutable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	torpor	torpor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
60	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	Nymph	Nymph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	's	's	PART	POS	_	67	case	_	_
69	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
71	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
72	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	73	aux:pass	_	_
73	reunited	reunite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	conj	_	_
74	to	to	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
75	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	77	nmod:poss	_	_
76	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | cave |  |  |  |  | by a subterranean way | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **escape** | gerund | cave *not said here* |  |  | cave's father's dominions |  | as a full stream | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dominion=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **spring** | to-infinitive | cave *not said here* |  |  | the light of day |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into light=Destination |
| 4 | **attack** | past · perfect · passive | a sort of torpor | Father |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **reach** | past | cave | cave's old residence and the Nymph's lake |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent residence=Theme |
| 6 | **reunite** | past · passive | cave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to cave's faithful husband | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **decree** |  | a inscrutable destiny |  |  |  |  |  | nom decree «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | torpor |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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