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title: The Elfin king then said some words to Burd Ellen, and she was disen… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Elfin king then said some words to Burd Ellen, and she was disenchanted, and they all four passed out of the hall, through the long passage, and turned their back on the Dark Tower, never to return again. Who acts: Elfin king, souls. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe R
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 76

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The Elfin king then said some words to Burd Ellen, and she was disenchanted, and they all four passed out of the hall, through the long passage, and turned their back on the Dark Tower, never to return again.

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**Who acts:** Elfin king, souls · **What happens:** say, disenchant, pass out, turn, not return · **To what, where:** words, Burd, word, hall, back, Dark Tower · **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 (Elfin king, souls), 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:pg7439:24:76
# text = The Elfin king then said some words to Burd Ellen, and she was disenchanted, and they all four passed out of the hall, through the long passage, and turned their back on the Dark Tower, never to return again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	compound	_	_
39	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Elfin king | some words | Burd |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to burd=Recipient |
| 2 | **disenchant** | past · passive |  | word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass out** | past | souls *= soul* | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the Elfin king *not said here* | souls's back |  | the Dark Tower |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | the Elfin king *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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