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title: With caresses she betrayed the secrets entrusted to her, and describ… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With caresses she betrayed the secrets entrusted to her, and described the magnificence of the Fairy Queen. Who acts: Ilse, secrets. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, 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 11, sentence 18

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With caresses she betrayed the secrets entrusted to her, and described the magnificence of the Fairy Queen.

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**Who acts:** Ilse, secrets · **What happens:** betray, entrust, describe · **To what, where:** Ilse, magnificence

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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, secrets), 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:pg74323:12:18
# text = With caresses she betrayed the secrets entrusted to her, and described the magnificence of the Fairy Queen.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	caresses	caress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | past | Ilse |  |  |  |  | with caresses | tree rules |
| 2 | **entrust** | past | the secrets |  | Ilse |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **describe** | past |  | the magnificence of the Fairy Queen |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent magnificence=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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