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title: I should add that, on the strength of the reference to Merlin, Jamie… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should add that, on the strength of the reference to Merlin, Jamieson calls Childe Rowland's mother, Queen Guinevere, and introduces references to King Arthur and his Court. Who acts: I, Jamieson. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree 
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 7

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I should add that, on the strength of the reference to Merlin, Jamieson calls Childe Rowland's mother, Queen Guinevere, and introduces references to King Arthur and his Court.

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**Who acts:** I, Jamieson · **What happens:** add, call, introduce · **To what, where:** that, mother, references, King Arthur · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Jamieson), 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:pg7439:71:7
# text = I should add that, on the strength of the reference to Merlin, Jamieson calls Childe Rowland's mother, Queen Guinevere, and introduces references to King Arthur and his Court.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Jamieson	Jamieson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	Guinevere	Guinevere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	introduces	introduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | should | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | present | Jamieson |  | Childe's mother |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
| 3 | **introduce** | present |  | references | King Arthur and Childe's Court |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent reference=Patient to arthur=Co-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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