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title: With considerable effort they made their way through the rank weeds… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With considerable effort they made their way through the rank weeds and thorns, and reached a high portal, fallen in on one side. Who acts: curiosity. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 67

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With considerable effort they made their way through the rank weeds and thorns, and reached a high portal, fallen in on one side.

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**Who acts:** curiosity · **What happens:** make, reach, fall · **To what, where:** way, rank weeds, high portal, one side

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity), 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:pg74323:24:67
# text = With considerable effort they made their way through the rank weeds and thorns, and reached a high portal, fallen in on one side.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | curiosity | curiosity's way |  | the rank weeds and thorns |  | with considerable effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 2 | **reach** | past | curiosity *not said here* | a high portal |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent portal=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  | a high portal *not said here* |  | one side |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in side=Location |

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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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