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title: The foxy so wee Had daughters twice two, And a little son too, Calle… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The foxy so wee Had daughters twice two, And a little son too, Called Phil.--Fiddle-dee! Who acts: wee. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 41

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The foxy so wee Had daughters twice two, And a little son too, Called Phil.--Fiddle-dee!

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**Who acts:** wee · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** daughters, foxy little son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wee), 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:pg29672:20:41
# text = The foxy so wee Had daughters twice two, And a little son too, Called Phil.--Fiddle-dee!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foxy	foxy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	Phil	Phil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	dee	dee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | wee | daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a foxy little son and Fiddle dee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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