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title: She tried daily to beguile him into setting a hand free with offerin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She tried daily to beguile him into setting a hand free with offerings of fruit, flowers, even her bracelet, but Otto nodded to his marshal, who received them. Who acts: Huldigunde, Otto, marshal. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 72

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She tried daily to beguile him into setting a hand free with offerings of fruit, flowers, even her bracelet, but Otto nodded to his marshal, who received them.

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**Who acts:** Huldigunde, Otto, marshal · **What happens:** try, beguile, set, nod, receive, offer · **To what, where:** Otto, hand, marshal, flowers, fruit

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huldigunde, Otto, marshal), 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:pg74323:13:72
# text = She tried daily to beguile him into setting a hand free with offerings of fruit, flowers, even her bracelet, but Otto nodded to his marshal, who received them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	beguile	beguile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	marshal	marshal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Huldigunde |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **beguile** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Huldigunde *not said here* | Otto |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **set** | gerund | Huldigunde *not said here* | a hand |  |  |  | with offerings of fruit and flowers and Huldigunde's bracelet; free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with offering=Instrument |
| 4 | **nod** | past | Otto |  | Otto's marshal |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to marshal=Recipient |
| 5 | **receive** | past | Otto's marshal | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **offer** |  |  | fruit and flowers and Huldigunde's bracelet |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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