Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 60
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 · What happens: use, break away, work, have, creep · To what, where: ring, bits, many moons, opening
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 used | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dungeon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dungeon | det |
| 7 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | advcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 break | compound:prt |
| 11 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 break | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bits | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worked | cc |
| 17 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | conj |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moons | amod |
| 19 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 worked | obj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worked | ccomp |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 opening | det |
| 24 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 opening | amod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 large | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 creep | mark |
| 28 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 large | advcl |
| 29 | through | through | ADV | _ | 28 creep | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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