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title: And ultimately the bespelled heroine is liberated by a liquid, which… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And ultimately the bespelled heroine is liberated by a liquid, which is applied to her _lips and finger-tips_, just as Childe Rowland's brothers are unspelled. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 30

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And ultimately the bespelled heroine is liberated by a liquid, which is applied to her \_lips and finger-tips\_, just as Childe Rowland's brothers are unspelled.

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**What happens:** bespell, liberate, apply, unspell · **To what, where:** bespelled heroine, liquid, brothers

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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: 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:pg7439:71:30
# text = And ultimately the bespelled heroine is liberated by a liquid, which is applied to her _lips and finger-tips_, just as Childe Rowland's brothers are unspelled.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bespelled	bespell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
30	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	unspelled	unspell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bespell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **liberate** | present · passive |  | the bespelled heroine |  |  |  | by a liquid; ultimately *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **apply** | present · passive |  | a liquid |  |  |  | to refusal's lips and finger tips | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **unspell** | present · passive |  | Childe's brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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