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title: But the world will discover our dreadful secret, the Duchess and her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the world will discover our dreadful secret, the Duchess and her powerful father will complain to Kaiser and Pope, your visits will be forbidden--and what will become of me and my boy?" Who acts: world, powerful father, your. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laud
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 53

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But the world will discover our dreadful secret, the Duchess and her powerful father will complain to Kaiser and Pope, your visits will be forbidden--and what will become of me and my boy?"

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**Who acts:** world, powerful father, your · **What happens:** discover, complain, forbid, become, visit · **To what, where:** dreadful secret, Kaiser, visits

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, powerful father, your), 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:pg74323:18:53
# text = But the world will discover our dreadful secret, the Duchess and her powerful father will complain to Kaiser and Pope, your visits will be forbidden--and what will become of me and my boy?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | future | the world | our dreadful secret |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | future | world's powerful father |  | Kaiser and Pope |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kaiser=Recipient |
| 3 | **forbid** | future · passive |  | your visits |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | future |  |  |  |  |  | of me; what *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **visit** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: 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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