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title: Still she did not hesitate, but began climbing down the smooth rocks… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Still she did not hesitate, but began climbing down the smooth rocks, which offered only here and there a crevice to her aid. Who acts: Escape, smooth rocks. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 62

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Still she did not hesitate, but began climbing down the smooth rocks, which offered only here and there a crevice to her aid.

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**Who acts:** Escape, smooth rocks · **What happens:** not hesitate, begin, climb, offer · **To what, where:** smooth rocks

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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, smooth rocks), 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:pg74323:4:62
# text = Still she did not hesitate, but began climbing down the smooth rocks, which offered only here and there a crevice to her aid.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	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 | **not** **hesitate** | past · do-support | Escape |  |  |  | still |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Escape *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **climb** | gerund | Escape *not said here* |  |  | the smooth rocks; there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down rock=Trajectory |
| 4 | **offer** | past | the smooth rocks |  |  | here |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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