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title: Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Ro… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Rowland” we have an idealised picture of a “marriage by capture” of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with an Aryan maiden, and her re-capture by her brothers. Who acts: it, we, capture. A sentence of «Englis
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 78

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Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Rowland” we have an idealised picture of a “marriage by capture” of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with an Aryan maiden, and her re-capture by her brothers.

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**Who acts:** it, we, capture · **What happens:** seem, have, idealise, marry · **To what, where:** re-capture, idealised picture, tale

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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 (it, we, capture), 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:pg7439:71:78
# text = Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Rowland” we have an idealised picture of a “marriage by capture” of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with an Aryan maiden, and her re-capture by her brothers.
1	Altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	improbable	improbable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	idealised	idealise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	non-Aryan	non-aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	re-capture	re-capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | it | Gomme's re-capture by Gomme's brothers |  |  |  | altogether, improbable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | a idealised picture of a marriage by capture of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with a Aryan maiden |  | such tale as Childe |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient |
| 3 | **idealise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* |  | capture of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with a Aryan maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: by=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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