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title: _A Head rises in the well_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me sm… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _A Head rises in the well_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some cockell-bread. Who acts: Head, you, thou. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 4

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\_A Head rises in the well\_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some cockell-bread.

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**Who acts:** Head, you, thou · **What happens:** rise, stroke, smooth, comb, have · **To what, where:** well, me, head, cockell bread

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Head, you, thou), 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:pg7439:93:4
# text = _A Head rises in the well_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some cockell-bread.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	smooth	smooth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	comb	comb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
30	cockell	cockell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | a Head |  |  | the well |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in well=Location |
| 2 | **stroke** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smooth** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **comb** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my head |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | shall | thou | some cockell bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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