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title: “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three; For… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three; For though I am a poisonous worm, No harm I'll do to thee.” Who acts: you, stepmother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 39

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“O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three; For though I am a poisonous worm, No harm I'll do to thee.”

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**Who acts:** you, stepmother · **What happens:** quit, unbend, give, kiss, be, do · **To what, where:** sword, bow, three, harm · **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 (you, stepmother), 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:pg7439:39:39
# text = “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three; For though I am a poisonous worm, No harm I'll do to thee.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	quit	quit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	unbend	unbend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kisses	kiss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	For	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	TO	_	32	case	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your sword |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Source |
| 2 | **unbend** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your bow |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present | stepmother | three |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | stepmother |  |  |  |  | for a poisonous worm | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | future | stepmother | no harm *not said here* |  |  |  | to thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

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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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