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title: “O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder sits my mother, the queen; By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 81

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“O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder sits my mother, the queen; By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie,

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**What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** father, mother

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:13:81
# text = “O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder sits my mother, the queen; By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie,
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	By	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
31	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	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 |  | my father |  |  |  | by the bonny mill dams of Binnorie; yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent father=Theme by dam=Location |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | present |  | my mother and the queen |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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