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title: The devil, in wrath at having laboured so much for nought, broke in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The devil, in wrath at having laboured so much for nought, broke in pieces his partly built defence. Who acts: devil. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, 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 2, sentence 7

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The devil, in wrath at having laboured so much for nought, broke in pieces his partly built defence.

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**Who acts:** devil · **What happens:** labour, break, build, defend · **To what, where:** wrath, built defence, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (devil), 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:pg74323:3:7
# text = The devil, in wrath at having laboured so much for nought, broke in pieces his partly built defence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	laboured	labour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **labour** | gerund · perfect |  | wrath *not said here* |  |  |  | for nought | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | past | the devil | devil's built defence |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defence=Patient |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **defend** |  | devil |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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