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title: "My daughter's spun seven, seven, seven, My daughter's eaten seven,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My daughter's spun seven, seven, seven, My daughter's eaten seven, seven, seven, And all before daylight." Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 28

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"My daughter's spun seven, seven, seven, My daughter's eaten seven, seven, seven, And all before daylight."

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** spin, eat · **To what, where:** seven

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg14241:31:28
# text = "My daughter's spun seven, seven, seven, My daughter's eaten seven, seven, seven, And all before daylight."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** *in a quote* | participle |  | seven |  |  | before all daylight |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seven=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | participle | My daughter | seven |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |

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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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