Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 67
The Princess took from him the most solemn promise of the strictest secrecy.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: take, promise · To what, where: solemn promise, strictest secrecy
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 (Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 promise | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 solemn | advmod |
| 8 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 promise | amod |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 secrecy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 secrecy | det |
| 12 | strictest | strict | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 secrecy | amod |
| 13 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promise | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Princess | the solemn promise of the strictest secrecy | from Petersburg | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent promise=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | promise | the strictest secrecy | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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