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title: But, to this end, go thou to the smithy and have thy armour studded… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, to this end, go thou to the smithy and have thy armour studded with spear-heads. Who acts: end. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 131

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But, to this end, go thou to the smithy and have thy armour studded with spear-heads.

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**Who acts:** end · **What happens:** go, have, stud · **To what, where:** thou, armour

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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 (end), 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:pg14241:32:131
# text = But, to this end, go thou to the smithy and have thy armour studded with spear-heads.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | this end | thou |  |  |  | to the smithy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | this end *not said here* | thy armour |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient |
| 3 | **stud** | participle |  | thy armour *not said here* |  |  |  | with spear heads | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with head=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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