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title: The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aug… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught. Who acts: next court. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 64

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The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught.

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**Who acts:** next court · **What happens:** pay, do, say · **To what, where:** reverence, naught, aught · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next court), 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:pg14241:29:64
# text = The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | shall | the next court | reverence |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Asset |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive |  | naught |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | aught |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aught=Topic |

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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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