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title: Then walk on and fear not, far into the midst of the marsh, till ye… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then walk on and fear not, far into the midst of the marsh, till ye find a coffin, a candle, and a cross. Who acts: you, ye. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 110

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Then walk on and fear not, far into the midst of the marsh, till ye find a coffin, a candle, and a cross.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** walk on, not fear, find · **To what, where:** midst, coffin

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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, ye), 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:pg14241:24:110
# text = Then walk on and fear not, far into the midst of the marsh, till ye find a coffin, a candle, and a cross.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | into the midst of the marsh *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | present | ye | a coffin and a candle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Topic |

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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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