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title: He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamla… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamlane's two grey eyne," so that henceforth he should not be able to see the fairies. Who acts: Catskin. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 13

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He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamlane's two grey eyne," so that henceforth he should not be able to see the fairies.

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**Who acts:** Catskin · **What happens:** give, ta'en out, not be, see · **To what, where:** Elf queen, fairies

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catskin), 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:pg14241:68:13
# text = He gives as the reason why the Elf-queen would have "ta'en out Tamlane's two grey eyne," so that henceforth he should not be able to see the fairies.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Elf	Elf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ta'en	ta'en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eyne	eyne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Catskin |  |  |  |  | as the reason | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ta'en out** *in a quote* | would · perfect · passive |  | the Elf queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | should | Catskin |  |  |  |  | able, henceforth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Catskin *not said here* | the fairies |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus |

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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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