English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 26

“Oh!” said the tree, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, the stool hops, and the broom sweeps, the door jars, and the window creaks, the old form runs round the house, and so I shed my leaves.”

Who acts: tree, Tatty, stool, broom, door, window · What happens: say, weep, hop, sweep, jar, creak · To what, where: house, leaves · 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 (tree, 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 tree	det
7	tree	tree	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	7 tree	acl
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	_	20 hops	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stool	det
19	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hops	nsubj
20	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 weeps	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sweeps	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sweeps	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 broom	det
24	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sweeps	nsubj
25	sweeps	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hops	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 jars	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jars	nsubj
29	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sweeps	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 creaks	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 creaks	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 window	det
33	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 creaks	nsubj
34	creaks	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 weeps	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 runs	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 form	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 form	amod
38	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 runs	nsubj
39	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 creaks	conj
40	round	round	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 runs	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 shed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 shed	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 shed	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 shed	nsubj
47	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 leaves	nmod:poss
49	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 shed	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the tree			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 old form		the house	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory
8	shed in a quote	past	the tree = tree	my leaves		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source

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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