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title: And they all knelt down in the mud, and said, "Our Lord, first forwa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they all knelt down in the mud, and said, "Our Lord, first forward, because of the cross, and then backward, to keep off the Bogles; but without speaking out, for they knew that the Evil Things would catch them, if they didn't do as the Wise Woman told them." Who acts: darklings, Evil Things, Wi
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 4

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And they all knelt down in the mud, and said, "Our Lord, first forward, because of the cross, and then backward, to keep off the Bogles; but without speaking out, for they knew that the Evil Things would catch them, if they didn't do as the Wise Woman told them."

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**Who acts:** darklings, Evil Things, Wise Woman · **What happens:** kneel down, say, keep off, speak out, know, catch · **To what, where:** mud, Lord, Bogles, darklings · **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 (darklings, Evil Things, Wise Woman), 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:pg14241:25:4
# text = And they all knelt down in the mud, and said, "Our Lord, first forward, because of the cross, and then backward, to keep off the Bogles; but without speaking out, for they knew that the Evil Things would catch them, if they didn't do as the Wise Woman told them."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Bogles	Bogle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Things	Thing	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
55	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	advcl	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel down** | past | darklings *= darkling* |  |  | the mud |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | Our Lord |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | darklings *= darkling* *not said here* | the Bogles |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bogle=Theme |
| 4 | **speak out** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | darklings *= darkling* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | past | darklings *= darkling* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **catch** *in a quote* | would | the Evil Things | darklings *= darkling* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · do-support | darklings *= darkling* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Wise Woman |  | darklings *= darkling* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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