--- title: Now, Professor Child has pointed out in his notes on Tamlane and els… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now, Professor Child has pointed out in his notes on Tamlane and elsewhere (_English and Scotch Ballads_, i., 338; ii., 505; iii., 505) that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place. Who acts: Child, dipping, transformation, Professor. 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/pg14241/76/22/) [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/) / 22 # More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 22 Now, Professor Child has pointed out in his notes on Tamlane and elsewhere (\_English and Scotch Ballads\_, i., 338; ii., 505; iii., 505) that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place. **Who acts:** Child, dipping, transformation, Professor · **What happens:** point out, dip, be, take, note · **To what, where:** iii, water, place, Tamlane 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 (Child, dipping, transformation, Professor), 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:pg14241:76:22 # text = Now, Professor Child has pointed out in his notes on Tamlane and elsewhere (_English and Scotch Ballads_, i., 338; ii., 505; iii., 505) that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Professor Professor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Child Child PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Tamlane Tamlane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 elsewhere elsewhere ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Scotch Scotch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 Ballads ballad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 338 338 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 ii ii X FW Foreign=Yes 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 505 505 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 list _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 32 iii III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 505 505 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 38 dipping dip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 csubj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 45 before before SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 transformation transformation NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 csubj _ _ 49 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | present · perfect | Child Professor | iii | | | now | in Professor's notes on Tamlane | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in note=Theme | | 2 | **dip** | gerund | | | | water or milk | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | dipping | | | | | necessary *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | can | transformation | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 5 | **note** | | Professor | | | Tamlane | | | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/76/23/) - ↑ back to [LXXXIII. 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