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title: Here they found the gigantic wooden horse, which they examined with… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they found the gigantic wooden horse, which they examined with wondering curiosity, various opinions being expressed with regard to its utility. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its depend
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 3005

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Here they found the gigantic wooden horse, which they examined with wondering curiosity, various opinions being expressed with regard to its utility.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** find, examine, express · **To what, where:** gigantic wooden horse, various opinions

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:3005
# text = Here they found the gigantic wooden horse, which they examined with wondering curiosity, various opinions being expressed with regard to its utility.
# source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wondering	wondering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	utility	utility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | hands *= hand* | the gigantic wooden horse |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 2 | **examine** | past | hands *= hand* | the gigantic wooden horse |  |  |  | with wondering curiosity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **express** | gerund · passive |  | various opinions |  |  |  | with regard to regard's utility | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», Project Gutenberg book 22381 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg22381:3005`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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