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title: "Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When there is aught you want Tell it me, and that I'll grant." Who acts: you, dead calf. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 90

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"Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When there is aught you want Tell it me, and that I'll grant."

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**Who acts:** you, dead calf · **What happens:** take up, put, be, want, tell, grant · **To what, where:** dead calf, yon grey stone, aught, stone · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dead calf), 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:pg14241:28:90
# text = "Take me up, bone by bone, And put me beneath yon grey stone; When there is aught you want Tell it me, and that I'll grant."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	compound	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	23	nmod:desc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the dead calf *= calf* |  |  | bone by bone *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the dead calf *= calf* |  | yon grey stone |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme beneath stone=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | aught |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | stone | the dead calf *= calf* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Topic |
| 6 | **grant** *in a quote* | future | the dead calf *= calf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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