English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 10

Then Tatty sat down and wept; then a three-legged stool said: “Tatty, why do you weep?”

Who acts: Tatty, legged stool, you · What happens: sit down, weep, say · To what, where: Tatty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tatty, legged stool, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stool	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 legged	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 three	punct
12	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stool	amod
13	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Tatty	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tatty	punct
17	Tatty	tatty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weep	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 weep	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 weep	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 weep	nsubj
22	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Tatty	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 weep	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tatty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	Tatty		then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	Tatty not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	a legged stool	Tatty	then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tatty=Topic
4	weep in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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