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title: Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but no change came over it. Who acts: Childe, change. 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 43

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Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but no change came over it.

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**Who acts:** Childe, change · **What happens:** go up, kiss, come · **To what, where:** set

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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, change), 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:pg7439:39:43
# text = Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but no change came over it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Childe |  |  |  | then | to the Laidly Worm | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Childe *not said here* | set |  |  |  | once *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | no change |  |  | set |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial\_Location |

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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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