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title: His first glance at the pair told him what had happened, and a smoth… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: His first glance at the pair told him what had happened, and a smothered tone of anger forced itself from his trembling lips. Who acts: first glance, smothered tone, Father. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tre
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 30

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His first glance at the pair told him what had happened, and a smothered tone of anger forced itself from his trembling lips.

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**Who acts:** first glance, smothered tone, Father · **What happens:** tell, happen, smother, force, glance, intonate · **To what, where:** Father, tone, trembling lips, pair, anger · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first glance, smothered tone, Father), 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:pg74323:16:31
# text = His first glance at the pair told him what had happened, and a smothered tone of anger forced itself from his trembling lips.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	smothered	smother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Father's first glance at the pair |  | Father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smother** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **force** | past | a smothered tone of anger | tone |  | Father's trembling lips |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
| 5 | **glance** |  | Father |  |  | the pair |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place |
| 6 | **intonate** |  |  | anger |  |  |  |  | nom tone «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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