--- title: Then they sate down together, and Childe Rowland told her all that h… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they sate down together, and Childe Rowland told her all that he had done, and she told him how their two brothers had reached the Dark Tower, but had been enchanted by the King of Elfland, and lay there entombed as if dead. Who acts: lives, Childe, Earth, King. 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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 (lives, Childe, Earth, King), 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:pg7439:24:62 # text = Then they sate down together, and Childe Rowland told her all that he had done, and she told him how their two brothers had reached the Dark Tower, but had been enchanted by the King of Elfland, and lay there entombed as if dead. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sate sate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Dark Dark ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 30 compound _ _ 30 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Elfland Elfland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 45 entombed entomb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 xcomp _ _ 46 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 48 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sate down** | present | lives *= life* | | | | then | down, together *property* | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Childe | | Earth | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | Childe | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Earth | | Childe | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **reach** | past · perfect · passive | | lives's two brothers | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary tower=Theme | | 6 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive | the King of Elfland | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **lie** | past | Childe *not said here* | | | there | | | tree rules | | 8 | **entomb** | participle | Childe *not said here* | | | | | as dead | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/63/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)