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title: Fulfil not thou vow, and none of the Lambtons, for generations three… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fulfil not thou vow, and none of the Lambtons, for generations three times three, shall die in his bed. Who acts: you, thou, none. 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 138

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Fulfil not thou vow, and none of the Lambtons, for generations three times three, shall die in his bed.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, none · **What happens:** not fulfil, vow, die

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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 (you, thou, none), 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:pg14241:32:138
# text = Fulfil not thou vow, and none of the Lambtons, for generations three times three, shall die in his bed.
1	Fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vow	vow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lambtons	Lambton	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fulfil** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vow** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | shall | none |  |  |  |  | in Lambton's bed | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute |

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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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