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title: Was there no hand to save her from this ruinous step--no voice to wa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Was there no hand to save her from this ruinous step--no voice to warn the betrayer of his sin? Who acts: hand. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 92

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Was there no hand to save her from this ruinous step--no voice to warn the betrayer of his sin?

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** be, warn · **To what, where:** betrayer

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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:pg74323:19:92
# text = Was there no hand to save her from this ruinous step--no voice to warn the betrayer of his sin?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	ruinous	ruinous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	betrayer	betrayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no hand |  |  | there |  | from this ruinous step  no voice; moon *obj*; save *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | no hand *not said here* | the betrayer of world's sin |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent betrayer=Recipient |

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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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