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title: And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane went their way homewards and were soon after married after young Tamlane had again been sained by the holy water and made Christian once more. Who acts: Elfin court, Burd, holy water. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Jos
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 89

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And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane went their way homewards and were soon after married after young Tamlane had again been sained by the holy water and made Christian once more.

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**Who acts:** Elfin court, Burd, holy water · **What happens:** ride away, go, marry, sain, make · **To what, where:** way homewards, young Tamlane

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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 (Elfin court, Burd, holy water), 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:pg14241:29:89
# text = And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane went their way homewards and were soon after married after young Tamlane had again been sained by the holy water and made Christian once more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	sained	sain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	39	advmod	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride away** | past | the Elfin court |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Burd and young Tamlane | arms's way homewards |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | past · passive | Burd and young Tamlane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **sain** | past · perfect · passive | the holy water | young Tamlane |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | Burd and young Tamlane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | christian *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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