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title: It sucked the cows' milk, devoured the lambs, worried the cattle, an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It sucked the cows' milk, devoured the lambs, worried the cattle, and frightened all the women and girls of the district, and then it would retire for the rest of the night to the hill, still called the Worm Hill, on the north side of the Wear, about a mile and a half from Lambton Hall. Who acts: Wo
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 108

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It sucked the cows' milk, devoured the lambs, worried the cattle, and frightened all the women and girls of the district, and then it would retire for the rest of the night to the hill, still called the Worm Hill, on the north side of the Wear, about a mile and a half from Lambton Hall.

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**Who acts:** Worm · **What happens:** suck, devour, worry, frighten, retire, call · **To what, where:** Worm, lambs, cattle, women, north side · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm), 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:pg14241:32:108
# text = It sucked the cows' milk, devoured the lambs, worried the cattle, and frightened all the women and girls of the district, and then it would retire for the rest of the night to the hill, still called the Worm Hill, on the north side of the Wear, about a mile and a half from Lambton Hall.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	expl	_	_
2	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Wear	Wear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	about	about	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	58	conj	_	_
62	from	from	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | past |  | Worm |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 2 | **devour** | past |  | the lambs |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient |
| 3 | **worry** | past |  | the cattle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cattle=Experiencer |
| 4 | **frighten** | past |  | all women and girls of the district |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer |
| 5 | **retire** | would | Worm |  |  |  | then | for the rest of the night; to the hill | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | the north side of the Wear | still |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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