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title: Then the king of the Huns came forward and cried in scorn, "Do you f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king of the Huns came forward and cried in scorn, "Do you fear these dwarf figures? Who acts: king, you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 53

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Then the king of the Huns came forward and cried in scorn, "Do you fear these dwarf figures?

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**Who acts:** king, you · **What happens:** come forward, cry, fear · **To what, where:** scorn, dwarf figures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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:pg74323:11:53
# text = Then the king of the Huns came forward and cried in scorn, "Do you fear these dwarf figures?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | the king of the Huns |  |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the king of the Huns *not said here* |  |  | scorn |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scorn=Location |
| 3 | **fear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | this dwarf figures |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=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:** «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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