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title: "Seven long years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clomb for the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Seven long years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clomb for thee, Thy bloody clothes I wrang for thee; And wilt thou not waken and turn to me?" Who acts: smith, glassy hill, bloody clothes, thou. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with i
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 21

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"Seven long years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clomb for thee, Thy bloody clothes I wrang for thee; And wilt thou not waken and turn to me?"

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**Who acts:** smith, glassy hill, bloody clothes, thou · **What happens:** serve, clomb, wrang, not waken, turn · **To what, where:** smith

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, glassy hill, bloody clothes, thou), 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:pg14241:17:21
# text = "Seven long years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clomb for thee, Thy bloody clothes I wrang for thee; And wilt thou not waken and turn to me?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	glassy	glassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wrang	wrang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** *in a quote* | past | the smith *= smith* |  |  |  | year | for thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **clomb** *in a quote* |  | the glassy hill |  |  |  |  | for thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrang** *in a quote* |  | Thy bloody clothes |  |  |  |  | for thee | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **waken** *in a quote* | future | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  | the smith *= smith* |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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