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title: At the end of three months Moritz revealed the secret to the French… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of three months Moritz revealed the secret to the French sovereign, and the governor of the island of Bourbon received forthwith the command to treat Madame d'Aubert with royal honours. Who acts: Moritz, governor. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 78

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At the end of three months Moritz revealed the secret to the French sovereign, and the governor of the island of Bourbon received forthwith the command to treat Madame d'Aubert with royal honours.

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**Who acts:** Moritz, governor · **What happens:** reveal, receive, treat · **To what, where:** secret, French sovereign, end, Madame d'Aubert

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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 (Moritz, governor), 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:pg74323:3:78
# text = At the end of three months Moritz revealed the secret to the French sovereign, and the governor of the island of Bourbon received forthwith the command to treat Madame d'Aubert with royal honours.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	Moritz	Moritz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Bourbon	Bourbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	forthwith	forthwith	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	d'Aubert	d'aubert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reveal** | past | Moritz | the secret | the French sovereign |  | at the end of three months |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to sovereign=Recipient |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the governor of the island of Bourbon |  |  |  |  | forthwith the command | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treat** | to-infinitive | the governor of the island of Bourbon *not said here* | Madame d'Aubert |  |  |  | with royal honours | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent d'aubert=Recipient with honour=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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