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title: _--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chap… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chapter of Henderson. " Who acts: Worms. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 5

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\_--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chapter of Henderson. "

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**Who acts:** Worms · **What happens:** form · **To what, where:** subject

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worms), 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:pg14241:78:5
# text = _--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chapter of Henderson. "
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Worms or dragons | the subject of the whole |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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