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title: The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' _Teut. Who acts: Laidly Worm, milk. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 6

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The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' \_Teut.

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**Who acts:** Laidly Worm, milk · **What happens:** require, be · **To what, where:** milk, ordinary provender

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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 (Laidly Worm, milk), 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:pg14241:78:6
# text = The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' _Teut.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Spindleston	Spindleston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Heugh	Heugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	xxxiii	xxxiii	NUM	LS	_	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rations	ration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	provender	provender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	kittle	kittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Grimms	grimm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Teut	Teut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** *in a quote* | present | the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh | the milk of nine kye for kye's daily rations |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme milk=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cow's milk | the ordinary provender |  |  |  | of such kittle cattle and Grimms  Teut | tree rules |

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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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