English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 31

Now there was an old man just by on the top of a ladder thatching a rick, and when he saw the little girl spill the milk, he said: “Little girl, what do you mean by spilling the milk, your little brothers and sisters must go without their supper.”

Who acts: old man, ladder, man, little girl, you, little brothers · What happens: be, thatch, see, spill, say, mean · To what, where: rick, milk, Little girl · 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 (old man, ladder, man, little girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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