English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 108
Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house she was a teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard.
Who acts: teeny tiny woman, woman · What happens: get, be, go up, put · To what, where: teeny tiny stairs, teeny tiny bone, tiny cupboard
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeny tiny woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 got | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 4 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 teeny | punct |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 teeny | punct |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tired | det |
| 19 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tired | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 teeny | punct |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tired | amod |
| 22 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tired | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | advcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 went | compound:prt |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 stairs | nmod:poss |
| 30 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stairs | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 teeny | punct |
| 32 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stairs | amod |
| 33 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 bed | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bed | nmod:poss |
| 36 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bed | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 teeny | punct |
| 38 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bed | amod |
| 39 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 put | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 put | cc |
| 42 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 bone | det |
| 44 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 bone | amod |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 teeny | punct |
| 46 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 bone | amod |
| 47 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 cupboard | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 cupboard | det |
| 50 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 tiny | amod |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 teeny | punct |
| 52 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 cupboard | amod |
| 53 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the teeny tiny woman | now | to woman's teeny tiny house result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | woman | bit obl:unmarked; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | woman | woman's teeny tiny stairs | to woman's teeny tiny bed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the teeny tiny woman not said here | the teeny tiny bone | a tiny cupboard | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bone=Goal |
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.
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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