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title: "Had I but known, Tamlane, Tamlane, Before we came from home, I'd ha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Had I but known, Tamlane, Tamlane, Before we came from home, I'd hae ta'en out thy heart o' flesh, Put in a heart of stone. Who acts: we, Burd Janet. 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 cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 87

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"Had I but known, Tamlane, Tamlane, Before we came from home, I'd hae ta'en out thy heart o' flesh, Put in a heart of stone.

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**Who acts:** we, Burd Janet · **What happens:** have, know, come, hae, ta'en out, put · **To what, where:** Burd Janet, Tamlane, home, ta'en heart, heart

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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 (we, Burd 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:pg14241:29:87
# text = "Had I but known, Tamlane, Tamlane, Before we came from home, I'd hae ta'en out thy heart o' flesh, Put in a heart of stone.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	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	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	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	13	conj	_	_
20	ta'en	ta'en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
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	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	punct	_	_
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | Burd Janet *= janet* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | participle |  | Tamlane and Tamlane |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  | home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hae** *in a quote* | would | Burd Janet *= janet* | thy ta'en heart |  |  |  | of flesh | tree rules |
| 5 | **ta'en out** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | Burd Janet *= janet* *not said here* |  |  | a heart of stone |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heart=Destination |

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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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