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title: But long they waited, and longer still, With doubt and muckle pain,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But long they waited, and longer still, With doubt and muckle pain, But woe were the hearts of his brethren, For he came not back again. Who acts: brothers, woe, Merlin. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 11

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But long they waited, and longer still, With doubt and muckle pain, But woe were the hearts of his brethren, For he came not back again.

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**Who acts:** brothers, woe, Merlin · **What happens:** wait, be, not come back · **To what, where:** hearts

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, woe, Merlin), 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:pg7439:24:11
# text = But long they waited, and longer still, With doubt and muckle pain, But woe were the hearts of his brethren, For he came not back again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
21	of	of	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	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | still | with doubt and muckle pain; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | woe | the hearts |  |  |  | of Merlin's brethren | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come back** | past | Merlin |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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