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title: We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owai… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero who flourished in the ninth century. Who acts: We, original hero, Welsh hero. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 9

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We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero who flourished in the ninth century.

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**Who acts:** We, original hero, Welsh hero · **What happens:** learn, be, flourish · **To what, where:** this, Kempe

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, original hero, Welsh hero), 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:pg7439:83:9
# text = We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero who flourished in the ninth century.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Kempe	Kempe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Champion	Champion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Owain	Owain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | We |  |  | this |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from this=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the original hero | Kempe or Champion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flourish** | past | the Welsh hero |  |  |  | century |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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