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title: Certainly the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in “Childe Rowland,” has a remarkable resemblance to the dwellings of the “good folk,” which recent excavations have revealed. Who acts: description. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with it
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 63

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Certainly the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in “Childe Rowland,” has a remarkable resemblance to the dwellings of the “good folk,” which recent excavations have revealed.

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**Who acts:** description · **What happens:** have, reveal, describe · **To what, where:** remarkable resemblance, recent excavations, Dark Tower

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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 (description), 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:pg7439:71:63
# text = Certainly the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in “Childe Rowland,” has a remarkable resemblance to the dwellings of the “good folk,” which recent excavations have revealed.
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	_
7	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	excavations	excavation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in Childe | a remarkable resemblance |  |  |  | to the dwellings of the good folk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient |
| 2 | **reveal** | present · perfect · passive |  | recent excavations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** |  |  | the Dark Tower |  |  |  |  | nom description «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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