English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 27

“Then,” said the little bird, “I'll moult all my feathers,” so he moulted all his pretty feathers.

Who acts: little bird, form · What happens: say, moult · To what, where: feathers, pretty feathers · 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 (little bird, 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	“	"	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	8 bird	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moult	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 moult	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 moult	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 moult	aux
13	moult	moult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feathers	det:predet
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feathers	nmod:poss
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 moult	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moult	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 moult	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 moulted	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moulted	nsubj
21	moulted	moult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 feathers	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feathers	nmod:poss
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feathers	amod
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moulted	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little bird		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	moult in a quote	future	the little bird = bird	my feathers		tree rules
3	moult	past	form	form's pretty feathers		tree rules

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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