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title: “Nimmy nimmy not My name's Tom Tit Tot.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nimmy nimmy not My name's Tom Tit Tot.” Who acts: My. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 104

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“Nimmy nimmy not My name's Tom Tit Tot.”

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**Who acts:** My · **What happens:** name

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (My), 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:pg7439:5:104
# text = “Nimmy nimmy not My name's Tom Tit Tot.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nimmy	Nimmy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nimmy	nimmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Tot	Tot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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