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title: She quickly cast her green mantle over him, and young Tamlane was Bu… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She quickly cast her green mantle over him, and young Tamlane was Burd Janet's for ever. Who acts: dove, young Tamlane. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 83

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She quickly cast her green mantle over him, and young Tamlane was Burd Janet's for ever.

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**Who acts:** dove, young Tamlane · **What happens:** cast, be · **To what, where:** green mantle

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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 (dove, young Tamlane), 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:pg14241:29:83
# text = She quickly cast her green mantle over him, and young Tamlane was Burd Janet's for ever.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past | dove | dove's green mantle |  |  |  | over adder; quickly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mantle=Product for ever=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | young Tamlane |  |  |  |  | 's Burd Janet | tree rules |

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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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