--- title: “Oh!” said the stool, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and so I hop;”… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh!” said the stool, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and so I hop;” “then,” said the broom, “I'll sweep,” so the broom began to sweep. Who acts: stool, Tatty, broom. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/) / 13 # English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 13 “Oh!” said the stool, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and so I hop;” “then,” said the broom, “I'll sweep,” so the broom began to sweep. **Who acts:** stool, Tatty, broom · **What happens:** say, weep, hop, sweep, begin · **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 (stool, Tatty, broom), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:19:13 # text = “Oh!” said the stool, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, and so I hop;” “then,” said the broom, “I'll sweep,” so the broom began to sweep. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Titty Titty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Tatty Tatty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 weeps weep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hop hop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 so so SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stool | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **weep** *in a quote* | present | Tatty | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hop** *in a quote* | present | the stool *= stool* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the broom | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **sweep** *in a quote* | future | the broom *= broom* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | the broom | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sweep** | to-infinitive | the broom *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/14/) - ↑ back to [Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/)