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title: Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief;… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As wanting due relief: No burial this pretty pair From any man receives, Till Robin Redbreast piously Did cover them with leaves. Who acts: death, arms, burial, Robin. A sentence of «More English Fai
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 58

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Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As wanting due relief: No burial this pretty pair From any man receives, Till Robin Redbreast piously Did cover them with leaves.

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**Who acts:** death, arms, burial, Robin · **What happens:** wander, end, die, want, receive, cover · **To what, where:** poor innocents, grief, due relief, babes

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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 (death, arms, burial, Robin), 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:pg14241:25:58
# text = Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As wanting due relief: No burial this pretty pair From any man receives, Till Robin Redbreast piously Did cover them with leaves.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	innocents	innocent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	From	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	piously	piously	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past |  | this poor innocents |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme innocent=Trajectory |
| 2 | **end** | past · do-support | death | babes's grief |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grief=Eventuality |
| 3 | **die** | past | another's arms |  |  |  |  | in one | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in one=Attribute |
| 4 | **want** | gerund | another's arms *not said here* | due relief |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot relief=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** | present | no burial |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cover** | past · do-support | Robin | babes *= babe* |  |  |  | with leaves; piously *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with leaf=Theme |

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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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