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title: Thou 'st got a skin o' dirt outside and all dry dust inside. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou 'st got a skin o' dirt outside and all dry dust inside. Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 78

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Thou 'st got a skin o' dirt outside and all dry dust inside.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** skin

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:22:78
# text = Thou 'st got a skin o' dirt outside and all dry dust inside.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	st	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Thou | a skin |  |  |  | of dirt and all dry dust | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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