--- title: And when they had waited and waited a good long time, Childe Rowland… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And when they had waited and waited a good long time, Childe Rowland, the youngest of Burd Ellen's brothers, wished to go, and went to his mother, the good queen, to ask her to let him go. Who acts: brothers, Merlin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Merlin), 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:pg7439:24:15 # text = And when they had waited and waited a good long time, Childe Rowland, the youngest of Burd Ellen's brothers, wished to go, and went to his mother, the good queen, to ask her to let him go. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 waited wait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 advcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 Burd Burd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Ellen Ellen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wish** | participle | | Burd Ellen's brothers *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | | | | | | to Merlin's mother and the good queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | mother | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | Merlin | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | infinitive | Merlin *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/16/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)