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title: And the thing to do is this: after you have entered the land of Fair… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the thing to do is this: after you have entered the land of Fairy, whoever speaks to you, till you meet the Burd Ellen, you must out with your father's brand and off with their head. Who acts: thing, you, whoever, father. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 23

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And the thing to do is this: after you have entered the land of Fairy, whoever speaks to you, till you meet the Burd Ellen, you must out with your father's brand and off with their head.

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**Who acts:** thing, you, whoever, father · **What happens:** do, enter, be, speak, meet, brand · **To what, where:** entered land, you, Burd Ellen · **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 (thing, you, whoever, father), 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:pg7439:24:23
# text = And the thing to do is this: after you have entered the land of Fairy, whoever speaks to you, till you meet the Burd Ellen, you must out with your father's brand and off with their head.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	nmod	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	off	off	ADV	RB	_	31	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the thing | the entered land |  |  |  | of Fairy | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | whoever |  | you |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **meet** | present | you | the Burd Ellen |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ellen=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **brand** |  | your father |  |  |  |  |  | nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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