English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 112
And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”
Who acts: woman, teeny tiny voice · What happens: be, cry out, give · To what, where: teeny tiny cupboard, bone, teeny tiny voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, teeny tiny voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sleep | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleep | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sleep | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 10 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 teeny | punct |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voice | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 16 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 teeny | punct |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | parataxis |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 cried | advmod |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 voice | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 cried | compound:prt |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 cupboard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cupboard | det |
| 25 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cupboard | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 teeny | punct |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cupboard | amod |
| 28 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tiny | det |
| 30 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tiny | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 teeny | punct |
| 32 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 33 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 tiny | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Give | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Give | punct |
| 36 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cried | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 Give | iobj |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bone | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Give | obj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleep | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | woman | again; time | sleep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the teeny tiny voice not said here | the teeny tiny cupboard | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | the teeny tiny voice not said here | my bone | the teeny tiny voice = voice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bone=Theme |
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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