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title: Wonderful, never-before-seen flowers nodded to him in greeting from… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Wonderful, never-before-seen flowers nodded to him in greeting from their slender stalks, and bent before him their lovely heads. Who acts: Wonderful seen flowers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 70

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Wonderful, never-before-seen flowers nodded to him in greeting from their slender stalks, and bent before him their lovely heads.

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**Who acts:** Wonderful seen flowers · **What happens:** see, nod, greet, bend · **To what, where:** man, slender stalks, lovely heads

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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 (Wonderful seen flowers), 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:pg74323:15:70
# text = Wonderful, never-before-seen flowers nodded to him in greeting from their slender stalks, and bent before him their lovely heads.
1	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	greeting	greet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **nod** | past | Wonderful seen flowers |  | man |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | Wonderful seen flowers *not said here* |  |  | flowers's slender stalks |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bend** | participle | Wonderful seen flowers *not said here* | flowers's lovely heads |  |  | before man |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme before he=Location |

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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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