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title: She listened to the storm, and heard the hail beat against the rock… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She listened to the storm, and heard the hail beat against the rock walls of the dungeon, hence they must be thin. Who acts: Escape, walls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 56

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She listened to the storm, and heard the hail beat against the rock walls of the dungeon, hence they must be thin.

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**Who acts:** Escape, walls · **What happens:** listen, hear, be · **To what, where:** hail beat

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Escape, walls), 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:pg74323:4:56
# text = She listened to the storm, and heard the hail beat against the rock walls of the dungeon, hence they must be thin.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Escape |  |  |  |  | to the storm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to storm=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | the hail beat |  |  |  | against the rock walls of the dungeon | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | must | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | hence, thin *property* | tree rules |

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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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