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title: I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o' nights, and that last night I dreamt myself to be in Swaffham, a place clean unknown to me, but in Norfolk if I mistake not, and methought I was in an orchard behind a pedlar's house, and in that orchard was a great oak-tree. Who 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 63

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I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o' nights, and that last night I dreamt myself to be in Swaffham, a place clean unknown to me, but in Norfolk if I mistake not, and methought I was in an orchard behind a pedlar's house, and in that orchard was a great oak-tree.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell, dream, dreamt, be, not mistake, methought · **To what, where:** poor silly country fellow, thee, myself, Swaffham, orchard, great oak tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:23:63
# text = I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o' nights, and that last night I dreamt myself to be in Swaffham, a place clean unknown to me, but in Norfolk if I mistake not, and methought I was in an orchard behind a pedlar's house, and in that orchard was a great oak-tree.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	dream	dream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	o	o	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
26	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	mistake	mistake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	methought	methought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	ccomp	_	_
54	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	's	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	det	_	_
63	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	_
64	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	69	cop	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
66	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
67	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | poor silly country fellow | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **dream** | present | I |  |  |  | night |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dreamt** | past | I | myself |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Swaffham but Norfolk |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **mistake** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **methought** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | I |  |  | a orchard |  | behind a pedlar's house | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | a great oak tree |  | that orchard |  |  | tree rules |

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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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