English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 9
But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalded her to death.
Who acts: Titty · What happens: go, put, tumble over, scald · To what, where: Titty, pot
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 (Titty), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pot | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pot | acl |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 tumbled | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scalded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scalded | cc |
| 16 | scalded | scald | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scalded | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scalded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Titty | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Titty not said here | Titty | the pot obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent her=Goal | |||
| 3 | tumble over | participle | the pot not said here | over property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | scald | past | Titty not said here | Titty | to death result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to death=Result |
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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