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title: The Earl, surprised, glanced around the circle and met grim looks an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earl, surprised, glanced around the circle and met grim looks and frowning faces. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 83

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The Earl, surprised, glanced around the circle and met grim looks and frowning faces.

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**What happens:** glance, meet, frown · **To what, where:** grim looks

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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: 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:pg74323:2:83
# text = The Earl, surprised, glanced around the circle and met grim looks and frowning faces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	glanced	glance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	frowning	frown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | around the circle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around circle=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past |  | grim looks and frowning faces |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **frown** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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