English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 20

“Oh!” said the window, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and the stool hops, and the broom sweeps, the door jars, and so I creak.”

Who acts: window, Tatty, stool, broom, door · What happens: say, weep, hop, sweep, jar, 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, 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 window	det
7	window	window	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	12 dead	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	_	30 jars	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jars	nsubj
30	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sweeps	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 creak	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 creak	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 creak	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 creak	nsubj
35	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 creak	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 creak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the window	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	present	the door	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	creak in a quote	present	the window = window	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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