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title: Madame d'Aubert conjured him not to betray her secret, told him her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Madame d'Aubert conjured him not to betray her secret, told him her story, and how it had been chiefly through his mother she had succeeded in escaping from Russia. Who acts: Madame. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its depend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 75

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Madame d'Aubert conjured him not to betray her secret, told him her story, and how it had been chiefly through his mother she had succeeded in escaping from Russia.

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**Who acts:** Madame · **What happens:** conjure, not betray, tell, succeed, escape · **To what, where:** chance, secret, story, Russia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madame), 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:pg74323:3:75
# text = Madame d'Aubert conjured him not to betray her secret, told him her story, and how it had been chiefly through his mother she had succeeded in escaping from Russia.
1	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	d'Aubert	d'Aubert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	conjured	conjure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
21	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
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	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conjure** | past | Madame | chance |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 2 | **not** **betray** | to-infinitive | Madame *not said here* | Madame's secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | Madame's story | chance |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
| 4 | **succeed** | past · perfect · passive |  | story |  |  |  | through chance's mother; Madame *nsubj*; chiefly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | gerund |  |  |  | Russia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from russia=Initial\_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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