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title: Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, car… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, carry every drop of milk they yield to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh, and the Laidly Worm will trouble the country no longer. Who acts: you, day, deeds, Laidly Worm. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 21

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Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, carry every drop of milk they yield to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh, and the Laidly Worm will trouble the country no longer.

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**Who acts:** you, day, deeds, Laidly Worm · **What happens:** put, go down, carry, yield, trouble · **To what, where:** drop, stone trough, country

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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 (you, day, deeds, Laidly Worm), 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:pg7439:39:21
# text = Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, carry every drop of milk they yield to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh, and the Laidly Worm will trouble the country no longer.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Heugh	Heugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	no	no	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Worm's seven kine; aside *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go down** | present | each day as the sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | every drop of milk |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |
| 4 | **yield** | present | deeds *= deed* | every drop of milk *not said here* |  |  |  | to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent drop=Theme to trough=Goal |
| 5 | **trouble** | future | the Laidly Worm | the country |  |  |  | long *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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