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title: Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write;… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write; A doleful story you shall hear, In time brought forth to light. Who acts: you, words, doleful story. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 31

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Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write; A doleful story you shall hear, In time brought forth to light.

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**Who acts:** you, words, doleful story · **What happens:** ponder, write, hear, bring · **To what, where:** time, light

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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 (you, words, doleful story), 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:pg14241:25:31
# text = Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write; A doleful story you shall hear, In time brought forth to light.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	ponder	ponder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	doleful	doleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	In	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ponder** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | well *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | shall | this words |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | shall | a doleful story |  |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bring** | participle |  | time *not said here* |  | light |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination |

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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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