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title: I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body I'm spinning old bre… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body I'm spinning old breeches, good body. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 5

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I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body I'm spinning old breeches, good body.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** spin · **To what, where:** old breeches

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7439:14:5
# text = I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body I'm spinning old breeches, good body.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present · progressive | I | old breeches and good body and good body |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | present · progressive | I | old breeches and good body |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=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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