English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 17
“Oh!” said the door, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and the stool hops, and the broom sweeps, and so I jar.”
Who acts: door, Tatty, stool, broom · What happens: say, weep, hop, sweep, 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 (door, Tatty, stool, broom), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | 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 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 10 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dead | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Titty | case |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 weeps | cc |
| 15 | Tatty | Tatty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 weeps | nsubj |
| 16 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hops | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hops | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stool | det |
| 20 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hops | nsubj |
| 21 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 weeps | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sweeps | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sweeps | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 broom | det |
| 25 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sweeps | nsubj |
| 26 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hops | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 jar | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 jar | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 jar | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 jar | nsubj |
| 31 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 jar | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 jar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | present | Tatty | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hop in a quote | present | the stool | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sweep in a quote | present | the broom | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | jar in a quote | the door = door | 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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