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title: Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in va… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the cow-herd's head. Who acts: Childe Rowland, Childe. 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 32

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Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the cow-herd's head.

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**Who acts:** Childe Rowland, Childe · **What happens:** not strike, go, brand · **To what, where:** that, vain, head

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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 Rowland, Childe), 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:pg7439:24:32
# text = Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the cow-herd's head.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	off	off	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **strike** | past | Childe Rowland with Childe's good brand | that |  | vain | then |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | Childe Rowland with Childe's good brand *not said here* | the cow herd's head |  |  |  | off *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 3 | **brand** |  | Childe |  |  |  |  |  | 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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