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title: My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.” 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 25

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My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.”

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**What happens:** spin · **To what, where:** darter

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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: 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:pg7439:5:25
# text = My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	darter	darter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	ha	ha	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	skeins	skein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | participle · passive |  | My darter  ha |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme skein=Result |

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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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