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title: I may add that “Burd” is etymologically the same as “bride” and is f… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I may add that “Burd” is etymologically the same as “bride” and is frequently used in the early romances for “Lady.” Who acts: I, that. 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 85

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I may add that “Burd” is etymologically the same as “bride” and is frequently used in the early romances for “Lady.”

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** add, be, use · **To what, where:** early romances

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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, that), 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:pg7439:71:85
# text = I may add that “Burd” is etymologically the same as “bride” and is frequently used in the early romances for “Lady.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	etymologically	etymologically	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	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* | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | as bride; etymologically, same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive | I *not said here* |  |  | the early romances for Lady |  | frequently *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |

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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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