--- title: “I grant thee mercy,” said Childe Rowland, “release my sister from t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I grant thee mercy,” said Childe Rowland, “release my sister from thy spells and raise my brothers to life, and let us all go free, and thou shalt be spared.” Who acts: Childe, thee, thy. 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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 (Childe, thee, thy), 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:pg7439:24:73 # text = “I grant thee mercy,” said Childe Rowland, “release my sister from thy spells and raise my brothers to life, and let us all go free, and thou shalt be spared.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grant grant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 10 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 release release VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 spells spell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 raise raise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 30 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 spared spare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grant** *in a quote* | present | Childe | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mercy** *in a quote* | | thee | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Childe | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **release** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my sister | | thy spells | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer sister=Source | | 5 | **raise** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my brothers | | life | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Destination | | 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **spare** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | thou | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | | 9 | **spell** *in a quote* | | thy | | | | | | nom spell «state 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/74/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)