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title: Many who ridiculed the idea of danger, paying no heed to friendly wa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Many who ridiculed the idea of danger, paying no heed to friendly warnings, forced their way through thorns and thickets to behold the mystery, and returned no more. Who acts: Many, friendly warnings, way. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 40

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Many who ridiculed the idea of danger, paying no heed to friendly warnings, forced their way through thorns and thickets to behold the mystery, and returned no more.

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**Who acts:** Many, friendly warnings, way · **What happens:** ridicule, pay, force, behold, return · **To what, where:** idea, heed, way, thorns, mystery, more

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, friendly warnings, way), 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:pg74323:9:40
# text = Many who ridiculed the idea of danger, paying no heed to friendly warnings, forced their way through thorns and thickets to behold the mystery, and returned no more.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ridiculed	ridicule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ridicule** | past | Many | the idea of danger |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | Many *not said here* | no heed |  |  |  | to friendly warnings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 3 | **force** | participle | friendly warnings *not said here* | warnings's way |  | thorns and thickets |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **behold** | to-infinitive | warnings's way *not said here* | the mystery |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mystery=Stimulus |
| 5 | **return** | past | Many *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

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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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