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title: So came the next night in the darklings, out they went all together,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So came the next night in the darklings, out they went all together, every man with a stone in his mouth, and a hazel-twig in his hand, and feeling, thou may'st reckon, main feared and creepy. Who acts: darklings, thou. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Ta
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 1

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So came the next night in the darklings, out they went all together, every man with a stone in his mouth, and a hazel-twig in his hand, and feeling, thou may'st reckon, main feared and creepy.

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**Who acts:** darklings, thou · **What happens:** come, go, feel, may'st, reckon, fear · **To what, where:** hazel twig, darklings, man, mouth

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darklings, 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:pg14241:25:1
# text = So came the next night in the darklings, out they went all together, every man with a stone in his mouth, and a hazel-twig in his hand, and feeling, thou may'st reckon, main feared and creepy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	darklings	darkling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
38	may'st	may'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	parataxis	_	_
42	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | a hazel twig in man's hand |  | the darklings | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkling=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | darklings *= darkling* | every man with a stone |  | man's mouth |  | out, together *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **may'st** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reckon** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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