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title: As they entered the garden, Otto exclaimed, "It is wonderfully beaut… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: As they entered the garden, Otto exclaimed, "It is wonderfully beautiful here; and in order that we may accompany each other without any disturbing element, I pray my Princess to adopt the etiquette of my court, and permit her hands to be bound one hour; then we shall both be secure, and nothing dis
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 77

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As they entered the garden, Otto exclaimed, "It is wonderfully beautiful here; and in order that we may accompany each other without any disturbing element, I pray my Princess to adopt the etiquette of my court, and permit her hands to be bound one hour; then we shall both be secure, and nothing disagreeable can happen to either of us."

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**Who acts:** wooers, Otto, garden, we, nothing disagreeable · **What happens:** enter, exclaim, be, accompany, pray, adopt · **To what, where:** garden, order, each, Princess, etiquette, hands · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wooers, Otto, garden, we), 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:pg74323:13:77
# text = As they entered the garden, Otto exclaimed, "It is wonderfully beautiful here; and in order that we may accompany each other without any disturbing element, I pray my Princess to adopt the etiquette of my court, and permit her hands to be bound one hour; then we shall both be secure, and nothing disagreeable can happen to either of us."
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	23	obj	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	disturbing	disturbing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	_
54	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
55	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
56	both	both	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
58	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	62	compound	_	_
62	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
65	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	64	obl	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	64	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | wooers *= wooer* | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Otto |  |  | order |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | garden |  |  | here |  | beautiful, wonderfully *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **accompany** *in a quote* | may | we | each |  |  |  | without any disturbing element | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 5 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | Otto | my Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **adopt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Otto *not said here* | the etiquette of my court |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent etiquette=Theme |
| 7 | **permit** *in a quote* | infinitive | Otto *not said here* | Princess's hands |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 8 | **bind** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | Otto *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  | then | both, secure *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **happen** *in a quote* | can | nothing disagreeable |  |  |  |  | to either of us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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