English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 30

“Then,” said the little girl, “I'll spill the milk,” so she dropt the pitcher and spilt the milk.

Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: say, spill, dropt, spilt · To what, where: milk, pitcher · 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), 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 girl	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spill	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 spill	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 spill	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 spill	aux
13	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 milk	det
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spill	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spill	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 dropt	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropt	nsubj
20	dropt	dropt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pitcher	det
22	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropt	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spilt	cc
24	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 milk	det
26	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spilt	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little girl		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spill in a quote	future	the little girl = girl	the milk		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme
3	dropt	infinitive	girl	the pitcher		tree rules
4	spilt	past	the little girl not said here	the milk		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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