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title: Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ball is gone, But long… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ball is gone, But long they waited, and longer still, And she came not back again. Who acts: Burd, brothers. 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 3

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Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ball is gone, But long they waited, and longer still, And she came not back again.

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**Who acts:** Burd, brothers · **What happens:** seek, be, wait, not come back · **To what, where:** ball

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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 (Burd, brothers), 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:pg7439:24:3
# text = Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ball is gone, But long they waited, and longer still, And she came not back again.
1	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	To	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Burd *not said here* | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Burd |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | past | Burd |  |  |  | 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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