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title: Three times Childe Wynd urged his men on to row bravely and strong,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Three times Childe Wynd urged his men on to row bravely and strong, but each time the Laidly Worm kept it off the shore. Who acts: Childe, time. 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 34

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Three times Childe Wynd urged his men on to row bravely and strong, but each time the Laidly Worm kept it off the shore.

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**Who acts:** Childe, time · **What happens:** urge, row, keep · **To what, where:** men, ship

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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 (Childe, time), 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:pg7439:39:34
# text = Three times Childe Wynd urged his men on to row bravely and strong, but each time the Laidly Worm kept it off the shore.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
11	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Worm	Worm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **urge** | past | Childe | Childe's men |  |  | time |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **row** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Childe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | past | each time | ship |  |  |  | off the shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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