English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 28

Now there was a little girl walking below, carrying a jug of milk for her brothers and sisters' supper, and when she saw the poor little bird moult all its feathers, she said: “Little bird, why do you moult all your feathers?”

Who acts: little girl, girl, you · What happens: be, walk, carry, see, say, moult · To what, where: jug, poor little bird moult, 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 girl, girl, you), 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	37 said	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 girl	acl
8	below	below	ADV	_	7 walking	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carrying	punct
10	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 walking	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jug	det
12	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 milk	case
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jug	nmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 brothers	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carrying	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 supper	cc
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 supper	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 sisters	case
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brothers	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 saw	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moult	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 moult	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 moult	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moult	compound
31	moult	moult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 feathers	det:predet
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feathers	nmod:poss
34	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 moult	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 bird	punct
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 bird	punct
40	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bird	amod
41	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 moult	punct
43	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	46 moult	advmod
44	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 moult	aux
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 moult	nsubj
46	moult	moult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 bird	parataxis
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 feathers	det:predet
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 feathers	nmod:poss
49	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 moult	obj
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	46 moult	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little girl		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	a little girl not said here				below property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	gerund	a little girl not said here	a jug of milk			for girl's brothers and sisters's supper	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme
4	see	past	girl	the poor little bird moult moult's feathers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moult=Stimulus
5	say speech: ask	past	girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	moult in a quote	present · do-support	you	your 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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