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title: "But had I known, Tamlane, Tamlane, A lady would borrow thee, I'd ha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "But had I known, Tamlane, Tamlane, A lady would borrow thee, I'd hae ta'en out thy two grey eyne, Put in two eyne of tree. Who acts: Burd Janet, lady. 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 c
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 86

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"But had I known, Tamlane, Tamlane, A lady would borrow thee, I'd hae ta'en out thy two grey eyne, Put in two eyne of tree.

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**Who acts:** Burd Janet, lady · **What happens:** know, borrow, hae, ta'en out, put in · **To what, where:** Tamlane, thee, two grey eyne, two eyne

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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, lady), 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:pg14241:29:86
# text = "But had I known, Tamlane, Tamlane, A lady would borrow thee, I'd hae ta'en out thy two grey eyne, Put in two eyne of tree.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hae	hae	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	ta'en	ta'en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	eyne	eyne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	eyne	eyne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Burd Janet *= janet* | Tamlane and Tamlane |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **borrow** *in a quote* | would | a lady | thee |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **hae** *in a quote* | would | Burd Janet *= janet* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ta'en out** *in a quote* | participle | Burd Janet *= janet* *not said here* | thy two grey eyne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put in** *in a quote* | infinitive | a lady *not said here* | two eyne of tree |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eyne=Goal |

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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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