--- title: “But sit ye down; but woe, O, woe, That ever ye were born, For come… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “But sit ye down; but woe, O, woe, That ever ye were born, For come the King of Elfland in, Your fortune is forlorn.” Who acts: you, fortune. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/) / 61 # English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 61 “But sit ye down; but woe, O, woe, That ever ye were born, For come the King of Elfland in, Your fortune is forlorn.” **Who acts:** you, fortune · **What happens:** sit down, bear, come, be · **To what, where:** ye, That, King 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 (you, fortune), 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:pg7439:24:61 # text = “But sit ye down; but woe, O, woe, That ever ye were born, For come the King of Elfland in, Your fortune is forlorn.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 O o INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 For for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Elfland Elfland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 forlorn forlorn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ye | | | | woe *obl*; woe *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive | | That | | | ever | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the King of Elfland | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your fortune | | | | | forlorn *property* | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/62/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)