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title: And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-ti… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!” Who acts: woman, teeny tiny voice. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the p
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 112

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And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”

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**Who acts:** woman, teeny tiny voice · **What happens:** be, cry out, give · **To what, where:** teeny tiny cupboard, bone, teeny tiny voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, teeny tiny voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:15:112
# text = And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  | again; time | sleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the teeny tiny voice *not said here* |  |  | the teeny tiny cupboard | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the teeny tiny voice *not said here* | my bone | the teeny tiny voice *= voice* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bone=Theme |

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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.

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**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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