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title: True of heart, the shepherd told him everything, showed him the conc… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: True of heart, the shepherd told him everything, showed him the concealed way to the cave, and in company they carried away much of the costly treasure; till at last avarice awaked the fear in the mind of the Earl that Tidian might at some future time reveal the secret to some one else. Who acts: Tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 6

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True of heart, the shepherd told him everything, showed him the concealed way to the cave, and in company they carried away much of the costly treasure; till at last avarice awaked the fear in the mind of the Earl that Tidian might at some future time reveal the secret to some one else.

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**Who acts:** True, they, last avarice, Tidian · **What happens:** tell, show, conceal, carry away, awak, reveal · **To what, where:** everything, shepherd, concealed way, much, company, fear · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (True, they, last avarice, Tidian), 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:pg74323:10:6
# text = True of heart, the shepherd told him everything, showed him the concealed way to the cave, and in company they carried away much of the costly treasure; till at last avarice awaked the fear in the mind of the Earl that Tidian might at some future time reveal the secret to some one else.
1	True	true	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
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	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	till	till	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	avarice	avarice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
36	awaked	awak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
46	Tidian	Tidian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
50	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
52	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
58	else	else	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	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 | True of heart | everything | shepherd |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic |
| 2 | **show** | past | True of heart *not said here* | the concealed way | shepherd |  |  | to the cave | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic |
| 3 | **conceal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry away** | past | they | much of the costly treasure |  | company | till last avarice | away *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Value in company=Location |
| 5 | **awak** | participle | last avarice *not said here* | the fear |  | the mind of the Earl |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **reveal** | might | Tidian | the secret | some one |  | time |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to one=Recipient |
| 7 | **mind** |  |  | the Earl |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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