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title: Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. Who acts: country. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 17

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Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** have, know · **To what, where:** reason

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:pg7439:39:17
# text = Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Spindleston	Spindleston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Heugh	Heugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the country *not said here* | reason |  |  |  | about *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* | reason *not said here* |  |  |  | of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of worm=Stimulus |

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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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