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title: Sore sick he was and like to die, No help his life could save; His w… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sore sick he was and like to die, No help his life could save; His wife by him as sick did lie, And both possest one grave. Who acts: gentleman, life, wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 33

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Sore sick he was and like to die, No help his life could save; His wife by him as sick did lie, And both possest one grave.

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**Who acts:** gentleman, life, wife · **What happens:** be, die, save, lie, pos · **To what, where:** help, one grave

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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 (gentleman, life, wife), 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:pg14241:25:33
# text = Sore sick he was and like to die, No help his life could save; His wife by him as sick did lie, And both possest one grave.
1	Sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	possest	pos	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | gentleman |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **save** | could | gentleman's life | no help |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | past · do-support | gentleman's wife by gentleman as sick |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pos** | present | gentleman's life *not said here* | one grave |  |  |  |  | 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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