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title: The young heir of Lambton took up the gruesome thing, and, taking it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The young heir of Lambton took up the gruesome thing, and, taking it off his hook, cast it into a well close by, and ever since that day that well has gone by the name of the Worm Well. Who acts: young heir, taking, day. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy T
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 104

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The young heir of Lambton took up the gruesome thing, and, taking it off his hook, cast it into a well close by, and ever since that day that well has gone by the name of the Worm Well.

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**Who acts:** young heir, taking, day · **What happens:** take up, take off, cast, go, name · **To what, where:** gruesome thing, thing, hook, Worm Well

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young heir, taking, day), 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:pg14241:32:104
# text = The young heir of Lambton took up the gruesome thing, and, taking it off his hook, cast it into a well close by, and ever since that day that well has gone by the name of the Worm Well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
30	since	since	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Well	Well	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | the young heir of Lambton | the gruesome thing |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **take off** | gerund |  | thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cast** | infinitive | taking | hook |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect | that day |  |  |  |  | by the name of the Worm Well; well *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by name=Location |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the Worm Well |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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