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title: To a stranger who had not been behind the scenes it was an innocent… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: To a stranger who had not been behind the scenes it was an innocent and pure family scene, betraying nothing of the wrong and bitterness these relations had caused. Who acts: stranger, scenes, innocent family scene. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 72

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To a stranger who had not been behind the scenes it was an innocent and pure family scene, betraying nothing of the wrong and bitterness these relations had caused.

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**Who acts:** stranger, scenes, innocent family scene · **What happens:** have, not be, be, betray, cause · **To what, where:** scenes, innocent family scene, nothing, relations

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, scenes, innocent family scene), 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:pg74323:18:72
# text = To a stranger who had not been behind the scenes it was an innocent and pure family scene, betraying nothing of the wrong and bitterness these relations had caused.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  | the scenes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the scenes | a innocent family scene |  |  |  | scene *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **betray** | gerund | a innocent family scene *not said here* | nothing of the wrong  bitterness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive |  | this relations |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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