English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 32
Then said the little girl: “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, the walnut-tree sheds all its leaves, the little bird moults all its feathers, and so I spill the milk.”
Who acts: Tatty, stool, broom, door, window, old form · What happens: say, weep, hop, sweep, jar, creak · To what, where: little girl, tree sheds, house, feathers, milk · 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 (Tatty, stool, broom, door), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 8 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Titty | case |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weeps | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weeps | cc |
| 13 | Tatty | Tatty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 weeps | nsubj |
| 14 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hops | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stool | det |
| 17 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hops | nsubj |
| 18 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 weeps | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweeps | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sweeps | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 broom | det |
| 22 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeps | nsubj |
| 23 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hops | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jars | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jars | nsubj |
| 27 | jars | jar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sweeps | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 creaks | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 creaks | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 window | det |
| 31 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 creaks | nsubj |
| 32 | creaks | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 runs | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 form | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 form | amod |
| 36 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 runs | nsubj |
| 37 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 creaks | conj |
| 38 | round | round | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 runs | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sheds | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sheds | det |
| 43 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tree | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 walnut | punct |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sheds | compound |
| 46 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 runs | obl |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 leaves | det:predet |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 49 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 runs | parataxis |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 moults | punct |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 bird | det |
| 52 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 bird | amod |
| 53 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 moults | nsubj |
| 54 | moults | moult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 leaves | conj |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 feathers | det:predet |
| 56 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 57 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 moults | obj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 spill | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 spill | cc |
| 60 | so | so | ADV | _ | 62 spill | advmod |
| 61 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 62 spill | nsubj |
| 62 | spill | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 creaks | conj |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 milk | det |
| 64 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 spill | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 creaks | punct |
| 66 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 creaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little girl | then | tree rules | ||||
| 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 tree sheds | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | moult in a quote | present | the little bird | shed's feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | spill in a quote | present | I | the milk | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme |
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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