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title: Of a truly kingly character, she constrained her agony to silence, b… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Of a truly kingly character, she constrained her agony to silence, but hoped ever for deliverance through the return of her Harz lover; still he came not. Who acts: Brunhilda, bridegroom, Harz lover. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 15

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Of a truly kingly character, she constrained her agony to silence, but hoped ever for deliverance through the return of her Harz lover; still he came not.

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**Who acts:** Brunhilda, bridegroom, Harz lover · **What happens:** constrain, hope, not come, return · **To what, where:** agony, return

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (Brunhilda, bridegroom, Harz lover), 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:pg74323:2:15
# text = Of a truly kingly character, she constrained her agony to silence, but hoped ever for deliverance through the return of her Harz lover; still he came not.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	constrained	constrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **constrain** | past | Brunhilda | Brunhilda's agony  silence |  |  |  | of a kingly character | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer agony=Patient |
| 2 | **hope** | past | Brunhilda *not said here* |  |  | the return of Brunhilda's Harz lover | ever | for deliverance | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for deliverance=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **come** | past | bridegroom |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **return** |  | Brunhilda's Harz lover |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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