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title: All was done as the warlock advised, the Laidly Worm lived on the mi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All was done as the warlock advised, the Laidly Worm lived on the milk of the seven kine, and the country was troubled no longer. Who acts: Laidly Worm, country. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 23

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All was done as the warlock advised, the Laidly Worm lived on the milk of the seven kine, and the country was troubled no longer.

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**Who acts:** Laidly Worm, country · **What happens:** do, advise, live, be · **To what, where:** All, milk

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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 (Laidly Worm, 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:pg7439:39:23
# text = All was done as the warlock advised, the Laidly Worm lived on the milk of the seven kine, and the country was troubled no longer.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	warlock	warlock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | All |  |  |  | as the warlock | tree rules |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | the Laidly Worm |  |  | the milk of the seven kine |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the country |  |  |  |  | long, troubled *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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