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title: I'll wear' em and tear 'em, good body, good body. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll wear' em and tear 'em, good body, 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 9

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I'll wear' em and tear 'em, good body, good body.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wear, tear · **To what, where:** em, 'em

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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:pg7439:14:9
# text = I'll wear' em and tear 'em, good body, good body.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | future | I | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=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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