--- title: The other won't agree thereto, So there they fall to strife; With on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The other won't agree thereto, So there they fall to strife; With one another they did fight About the children's life; And he that was of mildest mood Did slay the other there, Within an unfrequented wood; The babes did quake for fear! Who acts: other, Children, one, wretch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Children, one, wretch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:25:54 # text = The other won't agree thereto, So there they fall to strife; With one another they did fight About the children's life; And he that was of mildest mood Did slay the other there, Within an unfrequented wood; The babes did quake for fear! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 3 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 thereto thereto ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 So so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 strife strife NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 With with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 16 fixed _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 21 About about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 27 And and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 mildest mild ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 acl:relcl _ _ 34 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 Within within ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 unfrequented unfrequented ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 45 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 babes babe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 47 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 48 quake quake NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* | future | the other | | | | | thereto *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fall** | present | Children *= child* | | | there | | to strife | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to strife=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | past · do-support | one | | | | | about the children's life | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about life=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | | mildest mood | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **slay** | past · do-support | wretch | the other | | there | | within a unfrequented wood | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | | 6 | **do** | past | the babes | quake | | | | for fear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quake=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/55/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/)