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title: To-morrow night is Hallowe'en, and the fairy court will then ride th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To-morrow night is Hallowe'en, and the fairy court will then ride through England and Scotland, and if you would borrow me from Elfland you must take your stand by Miles Cross between twelve and one o' the night, and with holy water in your hand you must cast a compass all around you." Who acts: fai
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 61

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To-morrow night is Hallowe'en, and the fairy court will then ride through England and Scotland, and if you would borrow me from Elfland you must take your stand by Miles Cross between twelve and one o' the night, and with holy water in your hand you must cast a compass all around you."

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**Who acts:** fairy court, you · **What happens:** be, ride, borrow, take, cast · **To what, where:** Hallowe'en, England, me, Elfland, stand, compass

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy court, 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:pg14241:29:61
# text = To-morrow night is Hallowe'en, and the fairy court will then ride through England and Scotland, and if you would borrow me from Elfland you must take your stand by Miles Cross between twelve and one o' the night, and with holy water in your hand you must cast a compass all around you."
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Hallowe'en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Miles	Miles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	all	all	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	around	around	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Hallowe'en |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | future | the fairy court |  |  | England and Scotland | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through england=Trajectory |
| 3 | **borrow** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | me |  | Elfland |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from elfland=Source |
| 4 | **take** | must | you | your stand |  |  | night | by Miles Cross; between twelve and one o | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme |
| 5 | **cast** | must | you | a compass |  |  |  | with holy water in your hand; around you | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent compass=Theme around you=Destination |

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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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