--- title: I weird ye to be a Laidly Worm, And borrowed shall ye never be, Unti… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I weird ye to be a Laidly Worm, And borrowed shall ye never be, Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son Come to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee; Until the world comes to an end, Borrowed shall ye never be. Who acts: ye, own son, world. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, own son, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:39:13 # text = I weird ye to be a Laidly Worm, And borrowed shall ye never be, Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son Come to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee; Until the world comes to an end, Borrowed shall ye never be. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Laidly Laidly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Until Until PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 19 Wynd Wynd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Heugh Heugh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 thrice thrice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 Until until SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 Borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nsubj _ _ 46 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive | ye | a Laidly Worm | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **borrow** | past | ye *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **be** | shall | ye | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | infinitive | the King's own son | | | the Heugh and thrice kiss thee | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heugh=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **come** | present | the world | | | | to a end | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **borrow** | participle | | a end *not said here* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/14/) - ↑ back to [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/)