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title: “But now I fear his end is near, And destiny at hand; And you're to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But now I fear his end is near, And destiny at hand; And you're to be, I plainly see, The heir of all his land.” Who acts: water, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 45

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“But now I fear his end is near, And destiny at hand; And you're to be, I plainly see, The heir of all his land.”

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**Who acts:** water, you · **What happens:** fear, be · **To what, where:** end

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, you), 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:pg7439:26:45
# text = “But now I fear his end is near, And destiny at hand; And you're to be, I plainly see, The heir of all his land.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | water | Ettin's end |  |  | now | destiny at hand *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | plainly, see *property* | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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