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title: O quit your sword, unbend your bow — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O quit your sword, unbend your bow Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 5

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O quit your sword, unbend your bow

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** quit, unbend · **To what, where:** sword, bow

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7439:83:5
# text = O quit your sword, unbend your bow
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	quit	quit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	unbend	unbend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | imperative | you *not said here* | your sword |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Source |
| 2 | **unbend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your bow |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |

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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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