--- title: Then, without a word more, Childe Rowland drew the good brand that n… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then, without a word more, Childe Rowland drew the good brand that never struck in vain, and off went the horse-herd's head, and Childe Rowland went on further, till he came to the cow-herd, and asked him the same question. Who acts: word, Childe. 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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 (word, Childe), 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:pg7439:24:30 # text = Then, without a word more, Childe Rowland drew the good brand that never struck in vain, and off went the horse-herd's head, and Childe Rowland went on further, till he came to the cow-herd, and asked him the same question. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 without without ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 off off ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 34 on on ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 further further ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 iobj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | a word | the good brand | | | then | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | | 2 | **not** **strike** | past | | the good brand | | vain | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | a word *not said here* | the horse herd's head | | | | off *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **go on** | past | Childe | | | | | further *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | Childe | | | the cow herd | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a word *not said here* | the same question | Childe | | | | tree rules | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/31/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)