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title: She demanded her return, which her fairy Majesty granted, but threat… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She demanded her return, which her fairy Majesty granted, but threatened her with destruction, should she ever reveal to mortal what she had seen. Who acts: Ilse, fairy. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 13

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She demanded her return, which her fairy Majesty granted, but threatened her with destruction, should she ever reveal to mortal what she had seen.

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**Who acts:** Ilse, fairy · **What happens:** demand, grant, threaten, reveal, mortal, see · **To what, where:** return, Ilse

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilse, fairy), 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:pg74323:12:13
# text = She demanded her return, which her fairy Majesty granted, but threatened her with destruction, should she ever reveal to mortal what she had seen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mortal	mortal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Ilse | Ilse's return |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition |
| 2 | **grant** | past | Ilse's fairy | Ilse's return |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **threaten** | past | Ilse *not said here* | Ilse |  |  |  | with destruction | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 4 | **reveal** | should | Ilse |  |  |  | ever |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **mortal** | infinitive | Ilse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past · perfect | Ilse |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 7 | **return** |  | Ilse |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «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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