English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 23
“Oh!” said the form, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and the stool hops, and the broom sweeps, the door jars, and the window creaks, and so I run round the house.”
Who acts: form, Tatty, stool, broom, door, window · What happens: say, weep, hop, sweep, jar, creak · To what, where: 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 (form, 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 form | det |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 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 | _ | 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 creaks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 creaks | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 window | det |
| 34 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 creaks | nsubj |
| 35 | creaks | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 weeps | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 run | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 run | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 run | advmod |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 run | nsubj |
| 40 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 41 | round | round | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 house | det |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 run | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the form | 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 | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | run in a quote | present | the 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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