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title: The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree. Who acts: swanlets, goshawk. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 45

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The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree.

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**Who acts:** swanlets, goshawk · **What happens:** take, dash down, tie, charge · **To what, where:** charge, bridegroom, bride

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swanlets, goshawk), 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:pg7439:35:45
# text = The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swanlets	swanlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goshawk	goshawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the swanlets | charge of the bride |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **dash down** | past | the goshawk |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tie** | past | the swanlets *not said here* | the bridegroom |  |  |  | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | the bride |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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