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title: Many crowd forward to offer their congratulations, but, in the backg… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Many crowd forward to offer their congratulations, but, in the background of the hall one sees a group of knights with frowning brows. Who acts: Many, background, guests. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 78

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Many crowd forward to offer their congratulations, but, in the background of the hall one sees a group of knights with frowning brows.

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**Who acts:** Many, background, guests · **What happens:** crowd, offer, see, frown, congratulate · **To what, where:** congratulations, group, brows

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (Many, background, guests), 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:pg74323:2:78
# text = Many crowd forward to offer their congratulations, but, in the background of the hall one sees a group of knights with frowning brows.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	frowning	frown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | present | Many |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* | guests's congratulations |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent congratulation=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | the background of the hall | a group of knights |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer group=Stimulus |
| 4 | **frown** | gerund | the background of the hall *not said here* | brows |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Theme |
| 5 | **congratulate** |  | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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