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title: So he dashed the bowl to the ground, and said: “Not a sup will I swa… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he dashed the bowl to the ground, and said: “Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.” Who acts: Childe, sup, bit, Burd. 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 67

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So he dashed the bowl to the ground, and said: “Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.”

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**Who acts:** Childe, sup, bit, Burd · **What happens:** dash, say, swallow, bite, be · **To what, where:** bowl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, sup, bit, Burd), 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:pg7439:24:67
# text = So he dashed the bowl to the ground, and said: “Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sup	sup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past | Childe | the bowl |  |  |  | to the ground *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient to ground=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Childe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **swallow** *in a quote* | future | a sup |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bite** *in a quote* | future | a bit |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Burd |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

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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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