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title: Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone. Who acts: dams, harper, princess. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jaco
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 83

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Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone.

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**Who acts:** dams, harper, princess · **What happens:** wonder, tell, see, lie, drown, make · **To what, where:** dams, princess, bank, harp, hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dams, harper, princess), 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:pg7439:13:83
# text = Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harper	harper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
28	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | dams *= dam* |  |  |  | then |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the harper |  | dams *= dam* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | harper | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drown** | participle | the princess *not said here* |  |  | the bank |  | near the bonny mill dams of Binnorie | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect | harper | this harp |  | BINNORIE's hair and breast bone |  | afterwards *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Product |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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