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title: She mounted daily the terrible animal, and soon could ride a race wi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She mounted daily the terrible animal, and soon could ride a race with the Giant on the mountains. Who acts: Brunhilda. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 22

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She mounted daily the terrible animal, and soon could ride a race with the Giant on the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Brunhilda · **What happens:** mount, ride · **To what, where:** terrible animal, race

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brunhilda), 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:pg74323:2:22
# text = She mounted daily the terrible animal, and soon could ride a race with the Giant on the mountains.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | Brunhilda | the terrible animal |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 2 | **ride** | could |  | a race |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme |

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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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