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title: She used the ring of the dungeon to break away bits of the rock, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She used the ring of the dungeon to break away bits of the rock, and worked many moons till she had an opening large enough to creep through. Who acts: Escape. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 60

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She used the ring of the dungeon to break away bits of the rock, and worked many moons till she had an opening large enough to creep through.

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**Who acts:** Escape · **What happens:** use, break away, work, have, creep · **To what, where:** ring, bits, many moons, opening

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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), 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:pg74323:4:60
# text = She used the ring of the dungeon to break away bits of the rock, and worked many moons till she had an opening large enough to creep through.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	away	away	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	through	through	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Escape | the ring of the dungeon |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 2 | **break away** | to-infinitive | Escape *not said here* | bits of the rock |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | past | Escape *not said here* | many moons |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent moon=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | Escape | a opening |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Patient |
| 5 | **creep** | to-infinitive | Escape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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