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title: There will come all manner of frogs and snakes, and some will try to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There will come all manner of frogs and snakes, and some will try to get into your eyes and your mouth, but mind, don't stir the least bit or you will turn into one of those things yourself." Who acts: some, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, pa
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 122

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There will come all manner of frogs and snakes, and some will try to get into your eyes and your mouth, but mind, don't stir the least bit or you will turn into one of those things yourself."

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**Who acts:** some, you · **What happens:** come, try, get, not stir, turn · **To what, where:** manner, eyes, least bit, yourself

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, 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:pg14241:26:122
# text = There will come all manner of frogs and snakes, and some will try to get into your eyes and your mouth, but mind, don't stir the least bit or you will turn into one of those things yourself."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future |  | all manner of frogs and snakes |  | there |  | mind *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location manner=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | future | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* |  |  | your eyes and your mouth |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **stir** | infinitive · do-support |  | the least bit |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bit=Experiencer |
| 5 | **turn** | future | you | yourself |  |  |  | into one of that things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |

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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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