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title: So Burd Janet promised to do all for Tamlane, and next night at midn… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Burd Janet promised to do all for Tamlane, and next night at midnight she took her stand by Miles Cross and cast a compass round her with holy water. Who acts: Burd Janet, Janet. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 73

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So Burd Janet promised to do all for Tamlane, and next night at midnight she took her stand by Miles Cross and cast a compass round her with holy water.

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**Who acts:** Burd Janet, Janet · **What happens:** promise, do, take, cast · **To what, where:** all, stand, compass

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd Janet, Janet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:29:73
# text = So Burd Janet promised to do all for Tamlane, and next night at midnight she took her stand by Miles Cross and cast a compass round her with holy water.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Miles	Miles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Burd Janet |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Burd Janet *not said here* | all |  |  |  | for Tamlane | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | past | Janet | Janet's stand |  |  | night | by Miles Cross | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme |
| 4 | **cast** | past | Burd Janet *not said here* | a compass |  |  |  | round Janet; with holy water | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Product |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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