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title: Go all of ye, just afore the night gathers, put a stone in your mout… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go all of ye, just afore the night gathers, put a stone in your mouth, and take a hazel-twig in your hands, and say never a word till you're safe home again. Who acts: you, night. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree a
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 109

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Go all of ye, just afore the night gathers, put a stone in your mouth, and take a hazel-twig in your hands, and say never a word till you're safe home again.

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**Who acts:** you, night · **What happens:** go, gather, put, take, say, be · **To what, where:** all, stone, mouth, hazel twig, hands, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, night), 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:pg14241:24:109
# text = Go all of ye, just afore the night gathers, put a stone in your mouth, and take a hazel-twig in your hands, and say never a word till you're safe home again.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	afore	afore	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	till	till	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | present | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a stone |  | your mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | a hazel twig |  | your hands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent twig=Value in hand=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a word |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | till safe home |  | tree rules |

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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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