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title: “I've taken your cloak, I've taken your hood; The Cauld Lad of Hilto… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I've taken your cloak, I've taken your hood; The Cauld Lad of Hilton will do no more good.” Who acts: man, Cauld Lad. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 20

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“I've taken your cloak, I've taken your hood; The Cauld Lad of Hilton will do no more good.”

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**Who acts:** man, Cauld Lad · **What happens:** take, do · **To what, where:** cloak, hood, more

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Cauld Lad), 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:pg7439:44:20
# text = “I've taken your cloak, I've taken your hood; The Cauld Lad of Hilton will do no more good.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Cauld	Cauld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Hilton	Hilton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | man | your cloak |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | man | your hood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the Cauld Lad of Hilton | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |

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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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