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title: “Once more, and but once more,” he said to the Warlock, “tell how ma… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Once more, and but once more,” he said to the Warlock, “tell how man or mother's son may rescue Burd Ellen and her brothers twain.” Who acts: Childe, man. 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 20

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“Once more, and but once more,” he said to the Warlock, “tell how man or mother's son may rescue Burd Ellen and her brothers twain.”

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**Who acts:** Childe, man · **What happens:** say, tell, rescue · **To what, where:** Warlock, Burd twain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Childe, man), 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:pg7439:24:20
# text = “Once more, and but once more,” he said to the Warlock, “tell how man or mother's son may rescue Burd Ellen and her brothers twain.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
28	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Childe |  | the Warlock |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to warlock=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rescue** *in a quote* | may | man or mother's son | Burd twain |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twain=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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