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title: There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thous… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb. Who acts: firm, born Thousands. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 19

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There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb.

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**Who acts:** firm, born Thousands · **What happens:** close, bear, meet · **To what, where:** greedy Womb, common Tomb

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firm, born Thousands), 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:pg14241:35:19
# text = There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Womb	Womb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Tomb	Tomb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | firm | the greedy Womb |  | there |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent womb=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **meet** | past | born Thousands | a common Tomb |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Co-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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