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title: So when Childe Wynd came rushing up to the Laidly Worm it made no at… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So when Childe Wynd came rushing up to the Laidly Worm it made no attempt to stop him or hurt him, but just as he was going to raise his sword to slay it, the voice of his own sister Margaret came from its jaws saying: Who acts: Childe, power, voice. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jac
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 38

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So when Childe Wynd came rushing up to the Laidly Worm it made no attempt to stop him or hurt him, but just as he was going to raise his sword to slay it, the voice of his own sister Margaret came from its jaws saying:

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**Who acts:** Childe, power, voice · **What happens:** come, rush up, make, stop, hurt, go · **To what, where:** attempt, Childe, sword, power, jaws · **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 (Childe, power, voice), 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:pg7439:39:38
# text = So when Childe Wynd came rushing up to the Laidly Worm it made no attempt to stop him or hurt him, but just as he was going to raise his sword to slay it, the voice of his own sister Margaret came from its jaws saying:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
6	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Childe |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush up** | gerund | Childe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Laidly Worm *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to worm=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past | power | no attempt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material attempt=Product |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | Childe |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hurt** | infinitive | power *not said here* | Childe |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | past · progressive | Childe |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **raise** | to-infinitive | Childe *not said here* | Childe's sword |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 8 | **slay** | to-infinitive | Childe *not said here* | power |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 9 | **come** | past | the voice of Childe's own sister |  |  | power's jaws |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from jaw=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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