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title: "That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and if I should die, who'd take care o' a poor fool such 's thou, no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby? but mind thy manners, and speak her pretty, my lad; for they wise folk are gey and light mispleased." Who acts: Th
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 116

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"That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and if I should die, who'd take care o' a poor fool such 's thou, no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby? but mind thy manners, and speak her pretty, my lad; for they wise folk are gey and light mispleased."

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**Who acts:** That, st sore, I · **What happens:** say, need, die, take, look, mind · **To what, where:** Woman, Brains, more fit, care, manners, folk gey · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, st sore, I), 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:pg14241:25:116
# text = "That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and if I should die, who'd take care o' a poor fool such 's thou, no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby? but mind thy manners, and speak her pretty, my lad; for they wise folk are gey and light mispleased."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	ccomp	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	st	st	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	40	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	such	such	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
43	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
47	after	after	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	46	obl	_	_
49	than	than	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
56	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	72	punct	_	_
67	for	for	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
68	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
69	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
71	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	_
72	gey	gey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
74	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	conj	_	_
75	mispleased	mispleas	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	74	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	72	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | That | Woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | st sore | Brains *= brain* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 3 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | I | no more fit |  |  |  | my lad *vocative* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | would |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after thyself | than a unborn baby | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | thy manners |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Theme |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | folk gey and light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mispleas** *in a quote* | participle |  | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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