--- title: "Man of mine, man of mine, Have you seen a girl, With a willy-willy… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Man of mine, man of mine, Have you seen a girl, With a willy-willy wag, and a long-tailed bag, Who's stole my money, all I had?" Who acts: Man, Witch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:23:118 # text = "Man of mine, man of mine, Have you seen a girl, With a willy-willy wag, and a long-tailed bag, Who's stole my money, all I had?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 With with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 willy willy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 willy willy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 wag wag NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 stole steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Man of mine and man of mine | a girl | | | | with a willy willy wag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 2 | **tail** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **steal** *in a quote* | present · passive | | a tailed bag | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary money=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Witch | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/117/) - next →: [More English Fairy Tales, pa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/1/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/)