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description: Then the imps went forth to meet Childe Wynd's ship, but when they got near, they found they had no power over the ship, for its keel was made of the rowan tree. Who acts: imps. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and t
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 30

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Then the imps went forth to meet Childe Wynd's ship, but when they got near, they found they had no power over the ship, for its keel was made of the rowan tree.

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**Who acts:** imps · **What happens:** go, meet, get, find, have, make · **To what, where:** ship, power, keel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (imps), 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:pg7439:39:30
# text = Then the imps went forth to meet Childe Wynd's ship, but when they got near, they found they had no power over the ship, for its keel was made of the rowan tree.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	imps	imp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	keel	keel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the imps |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the imps *not said here* | Childe's ship |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | imps *= imp* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | past | imps *= imp* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | imps *= imp* | no power |  | the ship |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past · passive |  | ship's keel |  |  |  | of the rowan tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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