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title: "The vow! the vow!" cried out the Childe of Lambton, and blew still… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "The vow! the vow!" cried out the Childe of Lambton, and blew still another blast upon his horn. Who acts: vow. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 14

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"The vow! the vow!" cried out the Childe of Lambton, and blew still another blast upon his horn.

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**Who acts:** vow · **What happens:** cry out, blow · **To what, where:** Childe, blast

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vow), 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:pg14241:33:14
# text = "The vow! the vow!" cried out the Childe of Lambton, and blew still another blast upon his horn.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the vow | the Childe of Lambton |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blow** | past | the vow *not said here* | another blast |  |  | still | upon Childe's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |

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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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