English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 16
“Then,” said the window, “Door, why do you jar?”
Who acts: window, you · What happens: say, jar · 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 (window, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Door | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Door | punct |
| 10 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 window | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jar | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 jar | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 jar | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 jar | nsubj |
| 15 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 jar | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 jar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the window and Door | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jar in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules |
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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