English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 22

Now there was a fine large walnut-tree growing by the cottage, and the tree said to the form: “Form, why do you run round the house?”

Who acts: fine large walnut tree, tree, form · What happens: be, grow, say, run · To what, where: form, house · 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 (fine large walnut tree, tree, form), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
7	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 walnut	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
10	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tree	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 cottage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cottage	det
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 form	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 form	det
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Form	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Form	punct
24	Form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 run	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 run	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 run	nsubj
29	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
30	round	round	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fine large walnut tree			there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	gerund	a fine large walnut tree not said here					by the cottage	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cottage=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	the tree		the form				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to form=Recipient clause=Topic
4	run in a quote	present · do-support	the form = form	Form		the house			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory

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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