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title: I have likewise suggested a reason why Burd Ellen fell into his powe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have likewise suggested a reason why Burd Ellen fell into his power, chiefly in order to introduce a definition of “widershins.” Who acts: Burd. 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 4

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I have likewise suggested a reason why Burd Ellen fell into his power, chiefly in order to introduce a definition of “widershins.”

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**Who acts:** Burd · **What happens:** suggest, fall, introduce, define · **To what, where:** I, power, definition, widershins

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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 (Burd), 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:pg7439:71:4
# text = I have likewise suggested a reason why Burd Ellen fell into his power, chiefly in order to introduce a definition of “widershins.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	widershins	widershin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | likewise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Burd |  |  | Burd's power |  | in order | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
| 3 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | Burd *not said here* | a definition of widershins |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent definition=Patient |
| 4 | **define** |  |  | widershins |  |  |  |  | nom definition «communication 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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