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title: “And there sits my sister who drownèd me By the bonny mill-dams o' B… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “And there sits my sister who drownèd me By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie.” Who acts: sister. 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 85

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“And there sits my sister who drownèd me By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie.”

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** sit, drownè · **To what, where:** sister, hair

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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: who acts (sister), 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:pg7439:13:85
# text = “And there sits my sister who drownèd me By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
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	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drownèd	drownè	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	By	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	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 sister |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sister=Theme |
| 2 | **drownè** *in a quote* | past | my sister | hair |  |  |  | by the bonny mill dams; of Binnorie | tree rules |

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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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