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title: The main plot of this is the search of two brothers, Calypha and The… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The main plot of this is the search of two brothers, Calypha and Thelea, for a lost sister, Delia, who has been bespelled by a sorcerer, Sacrapant (the names are taken from the “Orlando Furioso”). Who acts: main plot, sorcerer. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowlan
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 24

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The main plot of this is the search of two brothers, Calypha and Thelea, for a lost sister, Delia, who has been bespelled by a sorcerer, Sacrapant (the names are taken from the “Orlando Furioso”).

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**Who acts:** main plot, sorcerer · **What happens:** be, lose, bespell, take, plot · **To what, where:** search, lost sister, names, Orlando Furioso, this

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. 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 (main plot, sorcerer), 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:pg7439:71:24
# text = The main plot of this is the search of two brothers, Calypha and Thelea, for a lost sister, Delia, who has been bespelled by a sorcerer, Sacrapant (the names are taken from the “Orlando Furioso”).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Calypha	Calypha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Thelea	Thelea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Delia	Delia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	bespelled	bespell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Sacrapant	Sacrapant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Orlando	Orlando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Furioso	Furioso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the main plot of this | the search and a lost sister |  |  |  | of two brothers | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bespell** | present · perfect · passive | a sorcerer | a lost sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | present · passive |  | the names |  | the Orlando Furioso |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from furioso=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **plot** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition 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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