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title: “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three, If I… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three, If I'm not won ere set of sun, Won never shall I be.” 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 clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 42

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“O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three, If I'm not won ere set of sun, Won never shall I be.”

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**Who acts:** you, stepmother · **What happens:** quit, unbend, give, kiss, not win · **To what, where:** sword, bow, three, set · **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:pg7439:39:42
# text = “O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three, If I'm not won ere set of sun, Won never shall I be.”
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	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
23	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Won	Won	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	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 | **not** **win** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · passive | stepmother | set of sun |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=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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