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title: "Oo, I've killed my pig, and lost my mother and I'm nobbut a fool my… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oo, I've killed my pig, and lost my mother and I'm nobbut a fool myself," says he, sobbing. Who acts: I, pig. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 57

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"Oo, I've killed my pig, and lost my mother and I'm nobbut a fool myself," says he, sobbing.

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**Who acts:** I, pig · **What happens:** kill, lose, nobbut, say, sob · **To what, where:** I, mother, fool · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pig), 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:pg14241:26:57
# text = "Oo, I've killed my pig, and lost my mother and I'm nobbut a fool myself," says he, sobbing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oo	oo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	nobbut	nobbut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer pig=Result |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past |  | my mother |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality |
| 3 | **nobbut** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | a fool |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sob** | gerund | pig |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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