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title: And when all was ready, they out with their oars and pulled sheer fo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when all was ready, they out with their oars and pulled sheer for Bamborough Keep. Who acts: all, Bamborough. 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 27

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And when all was ready, they out with their oars and pulled sheer for Bamborough Keep.

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**Who acts:** all, Bamborough · **What happens:** be, pull, keep · **To what, where:** sheer

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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 (all, Bamborough), 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:pg7439:39:27
# text = And when all was ready, they out with their oars and pulled sheer for Bamborough Keep.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Bamborough	Bamborough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | with men's oars; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | past | all *not said here* | sheer |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheer=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | Bamborough |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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