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title: With that bespake their mother dear: "O brother kind," quoth she, "Y… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With that bespake their mother dear: "O brother kind," quoth she, "You are the man must bring our babes To wealth or misery. Who acts: You. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 41

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With that bespake their mother dear: "O brother kind," quoth she, "You are the man must bring our babes To wealth or misery.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** bespake, quoth, be · **To what, where:** mother, Ere

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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), 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:pg14241:25:41
# text = With that bespake their mother dear: "O brother kind," quoth she, "You are the man must bring our babes To wealth or misery.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
3	bespake	bespake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	To	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bespake** | present |  | Children's mother |  |  |  | with that; dear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** | infinitive |  | Ere |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must · present | You |  |  |  |  | to wealth or misery; bring *property* | 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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