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title: The subject-matter of “Childe Rowland” has also claims on our attent… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The subject-matter of “Childe Rowland” has also claims on our attention especially with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves, trolls, and fairies. Who acts: subject matter, Childe, our. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its depe
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 54

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The subject-matter of “Childe Rowland” has also claims on our attention especially with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves, trolls, and fairies.

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**Who acts:** subject matter, Childe, our · **What happens:** have, claim, matter, attend · **To what, where:** attention

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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 (subject matter, Childe, our), 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:pg7439:71:54
# text = The subject-matter of “Childe Rowland” has also claims on our attention especially with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves, trolls, and fairies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **have** | present | the subject matter of Childe |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | the subject matter of Childe *not said here* |  |  | our attention |  | with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves and trolls and fairies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **matter** |  | Childe |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **attend** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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