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title: But the grisly Worm took no heed, except that it crossed the river a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the grisly Worm took no heed, except that it crossed the river and came right up to Lambton Hall itself where the old lord lived on all alone, his only son having gone to the Holy Land. Who acts: grisly Worm, Worm. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tal
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 111

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But the grisly Worm took no heed, except that it crossed the river and came right up to Lambton Hall itself where the old lord lived on all alone, his only son having gone to the Holy Land.

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**Who acts:** grisly Worm, Worm · **What happens:** take, cross, come, live, go · **To what, where:** heed, river, Lambton Hall, old lord, all, Holy Land

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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 (grisly Worm, 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:pg14241:32:111
# text = But the grisly Worm took no heed, except that it crossed the river and came right up to Lambton Hall itself where the old lord lived on all alone, his only son having gone to the Holy Land.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grisly	grisly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	nsubj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
30	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	aux	_	_
36	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	40	compound	_	_
40	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the grisly Worm | no heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | past | Worm | the river |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the grisly Worm *not said here* |  |  | Lambton Hall |  | right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up hall=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **live** | participle |  | the old lord *not said here* |  | all |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on all=Location |
| 5 | **go** | gerund · perfect | Worm |  |  | the Holy Land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |

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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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