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title: "Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin." Who acts: Fish. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 62

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"Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin."

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**Who acts:** Fish · **What happens:** sit, spin · **To what, where:** kind Sir

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish), 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:pg14241:30:62
# text = "Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Fish *= fish* | kind Sir |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spin** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Fish *= fish* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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