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title: Henceforth the Worm would cross the river every day, and woe betide… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Henceforth the Worm would cross the river every day, and woe betide the Hall if the trough contained the milk of less than nine kye. Who acts: Worm, woe, trough. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 117

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Henceforth the Worm would cross the river every day, and woe betide the Hall if the trough contained the milk of less than nine kye.

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**Who acts:** Worm, woe, trough · **What happens:** cross, betide, contain · **To what, where:** river, Hall, milk

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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, woe, trough), 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:pg14241:32:117
# text = Henceforth the Worm would cross the river every day, and woe betide the Hall if the trough contained the milk of less than nine kye.
1	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	betide	betide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | would | the Worm | the river |  |  | day |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 2 | **betide** | present | woe | the Hall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the trough | the milk of nine kye |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme |

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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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