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title: “An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown; His shirt of web by spiders s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown; His shirt of web by spiders spun; With jacket wove of thistle's down; His trowsers were of feathers done. Who acts: Tom, trowsers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 11

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“An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown; His shirt of web by spiders spun; With jacket wove of thistle's down; His trowsers were of feathers done.

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**Who acts:** Tom, trowsers · **What happens:** have, spin, weave, be, do, crown · **To what, where:** oak leaf hat, spiders, feathers

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, trowsers), 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:pg7439:28:11
# text = “An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown; His shirt of web by spiders spun; With jacket wove of thistle's down; His trowsers were of feathers done.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	With	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	trowsers	trowser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Tom | a oak leaf hat and Tom's shirt of web by spiders and feathers *not said here* |  |  |  | for Tom's crown | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** *in a quote* | participle |  | spiders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weave** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | with jacket; of thistle's down | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of down=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Tom's trowsers |  |  |  |  | of feathers | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | feathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **crown** *in a quote* |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «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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