--- title: One wonders in what form Mr. Burchell knew Catskin, for "he gave the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One wonders in what form Mr. Burchell knew Catskin, for "he gave the [Primrose] children the Buck of Beverland,[3] with the history of Patient Grissel, the adventures of Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower" (_Vicar of Wakefield_, 1766, c. vi.). Who acts: One, Burchell. A sentence of «More English --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [LXXXIII. Catskin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/) / 16 # More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 16 One wonders in what form Mr. Burchell knew Catskin, for "he gave the \[Primrose\] children the Buck of Beverland,\[3\] with the history of Patient Grissel, the adventures of Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower" (\_Vicar of Wakefield\_, 1766, c. vi.). **Who acts:** One, Burchell · **What happens:** wonder, know, give, adventure · **To what, where:** Catskin, Buck, Primrose children · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Burchell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:76:16 # text = One wonders in what form Mr. Burchell knew Catskin, for "he gave the [Primrose] children the Buck of Beverland,[3] with the history of Patient Grissel, the adventures of Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower" (_Vicar of Wakefield_, 1766, c. vi.). 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wonders wonder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 obl _ _ 5 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Burchell Burchell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 Catskin Catskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Primrose primrose NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Buck Buck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Beverland Beverland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Patient Patient PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 Grissel Grissel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Catskin Catskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Fair Fair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Rosamond Rosamond PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 Bower Bower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 Vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Wakefield Wakefield PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 1766 1766 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 c. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 56 vi vi X FW Foreign=Yes 55 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | One | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | past | Burchell form Mr. | Catskin | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer catskin=Stimulus | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Burchell | the Buck of Beverland | the Primrose children | | | with the history of Patient; 3 *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient buck=Theme | | 4 | **adventure** *in a quote* | | | Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/17/) - ↑ back to [LXXXIII. 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