English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 12
Then a broom in the corner of the room said, “Stool, why do you hop?”
Who acts: broom, you · What happens: say, hop · To what, where: Stool · 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 (broom, 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 | 10 said | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 broom | det |
| 3 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broom | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | nmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stool | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stool | punct |
| 13 | Stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hop | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 hop | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hop | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 hop | nsubj |
| 18 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 hop | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | a broom in the corner of the room | Stool | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hop in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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