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title: For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and a roar the Laidly Worm reared back and before Childe Wynd stood his sister Margaret. Who acts: change, Laidly Worm, Childe. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its depende
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 45

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For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and a roar the Laidly Worm reared back and before Childe Wynd stood his sister Margaret.

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**Who acts:** change, Laidly Worm, Childe · **What happens:** kiss, rear back, stand · **To what, where:** loathsome thing, sister

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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 (change, Laidly Worm, Childe), 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:pg7439:39:45
# text = For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and a roar the Laidly Worm reared back and before Childe Wynd stood his sister Margaret.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
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	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reared	rear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	iobj	_	_
30	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | change | the loathsome thing |  |  | time |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **rear back** | past | the Laidly Worm |  |  |  |  | with a hiss and a roar | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Childe |  | Childe's sister |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |

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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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