--- title: And then after they had talked a little longer Childe Rowland began… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then after they had talked a little longer Childe Rowland began to feel hungry from his long travels, and told his sister Burd Ellen how hungry he was and asked for some food, forgetting all about the Warlock Merlin's warning. Who acts: brothers, Childe, long, Burd. 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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 (brothers, Childe, long, Burd), 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:pg7439:24:63 # text = And then after they had talked a little longer Childe Rowland began to feel hungry from his long travels, and told his sister Burd Ellen how hungry he was and asked for some food, forgetting all about the Warlock Merlin's warning. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 10 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 from from SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 19 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:desc _ _ 25 Burd Burd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 Ellen Ellen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Warlock Warlock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Merlin Merlin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | | | | then | long *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | Childe | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Childe *not said here* | | | | | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **travel** | present | long | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | Burd Childe's sister | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | | | | for some food | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **forget** | gerund | | | | | | about the Warlock Merlin's warning | tree rules | | 9 | **warn** | | the Warlock Merlin | | | | | | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/64/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)