English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 18
“Then,” said the window, “I'll creak,” so the window creaked.
Who acts: window · What happens: say, creak · 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), 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 | _ | 12 creak | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 creak | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 creak | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 creak | aux |
| 12 | creak | creak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 creak | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 creak | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 creaked | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creaked | nsubj |
| 18 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 creak | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the window | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | creak in a quote | future | the window = window | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | creak | past | the window | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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