English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 114
And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder,
Who acts: teeny tiny woman, tiny louder · What happens: be, sleep, say · To what, where: teeny tiny cupboard · 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 (teeny tiny woman, tiny louder), 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 | _ | 11 sleep | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 been | mark |
| 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 | 9 been | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 been | aux |
| 9 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 sleep | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sleep | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 14 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 teeny | punct |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 voice | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 20 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 teeny | punct |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 cupboard | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cupboard | det |
| 26 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cupboard | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 teeny | punct |
| 28 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cupboard | amod |
| 29 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 voice | conj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 said | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 louder | det |
| 33 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tiny | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 teeny | punct |
| 35 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 louder | amod |
| 36 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 said | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past · perfect | the teeny tiny woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | again; time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a tiny louder | the teeny tiny cupboard | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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