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title: “This is what I'll do,” says the little black thing, “I'll come to y… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is what I'll do,” says the little black thing, “I'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night.” Who acts: This, little black thing. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 50

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“This is what I'll do,” says the little black thing, “I'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night.”

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**Who acts:** This, little black thing · **What happens:** be, do, say, come, take, bring · **To what, where:** window, flax · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, little black thing), 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:pg7439:5:50
# text = “This is what I'll do,” says the little black thing, “I'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the little black thing *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the little black thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | future | the little black thing *= thing* |  |  | your window | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | the little black thing *= thing* *not said here* | the flax |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | the little black thing *= thing* *not said here* | flax |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **spin** *in a quote* | participle | the little black thing *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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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