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title: That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling round so fast. Who acts: That, tail. 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 109

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That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling round so fast.

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**Who acts:** That, tail · **What happens:** grin, be, twirl · **To what, where:** ear, tail

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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 (That, tail), 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:pg7439:5:109
# text = That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling round so fast.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Oo	Oo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	twirling	twirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	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 | **grin** | past · progressive | That |  |  | ear |  | to ear | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | that tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **twirl** | past · progressive | that tail |  |  |  |  | fast, round *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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