English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 116
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!”
Who acts: this, woman · What happens: woman, be, put, say, take · To what, where: teeny tiny head, teeny tiny clothes, loudest teeny tiny voice, head · 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 (this, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 woman | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 teeny | punct |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frightened | parataxis |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightened | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 9 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tiny | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 teeny | punct |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bit | amod |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frightened | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 frightened | advmod |
| 14 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightened | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 teeny | punct |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 clothes | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 clothes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 clothes | det |
| 27 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clothes | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 teeny | punct |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clothes | amod |
| 30 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 put | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 said | cc |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 voice | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 voice | nmod:poss |
| 36 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 voice | amod |
| 37 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 voice | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 teeny | punct |
| 39 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 voice | amod |
| 40 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 said | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 TAKE | punct |
| 42 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 TAKE | punct |
| 43 | TAKE | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | ccomp |
| 44 | IT | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 TAKE | obj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 TAKE | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 TAKE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woman | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | a tiny bit obl:unmarked; frightened property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | past | woman | woman's teeny tiny head | the teeny tiny clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out clothes=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | woman not said here | woman's loudest teeny tiny voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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