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title: When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief an… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds. Who acts: Althea, grief. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 861

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When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds.

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**Who acts:** Althea, grief · **What happens:** behold, slay, know · **To what, where:** dead bodies, bounds

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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 (Althea, grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:861
# text = When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds.
# 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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Althea	Althea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | Althea | the dead bodies of the slain heroes |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past | Althea's grief and anger | no bounds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |

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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:pg22381:861`.

**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.

See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/).

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