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title: My noble Eitel[2] is noble in character as in name; he would never c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: My noble Eitel[2] is noble in character as in name; he would never consent no more than I. But I live in constant terror of discovery." Who acts: noble Eitel, Eitel, I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 59

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My noble Eitel\[2\] is noble in character as in name; he would never consent no more than I. But I live in constant terror of discovery."

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**Who acts:** noble Eitel, Eitel, I · **What happens:** be, not consent, live · **To what, where:** character, more, constant terror

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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 (noble Eitel, Eitel, I), 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:pg74323:18:59
# text = My noble Eitel[2] is noble in character as in name; he would never consent no more than I. But I live in constant terror of discovery."
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Eitel	Eitel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My noble Eitel |  |  | character as name |  | noble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **consent** | would | Eitel | more than I. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | I |  |  | constant terror of discovery |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |

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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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