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title: Already a strong oath was on his lips as the figures turned round an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Already a strong oath was on his lips as the figures turned round and, through their odd, foreign appearance, frightened back every expression of anger. Who acts: strong oath, figures, odd foreign appearance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 46

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Already a strong oath was on his lips as the figures turned round and, through their odd, foreign appearance, frightened back every expression of anger.

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**Who acts:** strong oath, figures, odd foreign appearance · **What happens:** be, turn round, frighten back · **To what, where:** lips, expression

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong oath, figures, odd foreign appearance), 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:pg74323:15:46
# text = Already a strong oath was on his lips as the figures turned round and, through their odd, foreign appearance, frightened back every expression of anger.
1	Already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a strong oath |  |  | Scharzfels's lips |  | Scharzfels *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn round** | past | the figures |  |  |  |  | figures's odd foreign appearance *conj*; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten back** | participle | figures's odd foreign appearance *not said here* | every expression of anger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus expression=Experiencer |

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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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