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title: “Oh!” said the little bird, “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, the stoo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh!” said the little bird, “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 its leaves, and so I moult all my feathers.” Who acts: little bird, Tatty, stool, broom. A sentence of «Eng
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# English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 29

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“Oh!” said the little bird, “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 its leaves, and so I moult all my feathers.”

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**Who acts:** little bird, Tatty, stool, broom, door, window · **What happens:** say, weep, hop, sweep, jar, creak · **To what, where:** house, leaves, feathers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little bird, Tatty, stool, broom), 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:pg7439:19:29
# text = “Oh!” said the little bird, “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 its leaves, and so I moult all my feathers.”
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	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	weeps	weep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hops	hop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	jars	jar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	creaks	creak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	round	round	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	sheds	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	moult	moult	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
57	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little bird |  |  |  |  |  | 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 |  |  |  |  |  | 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 house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory |
| 8 | **shed** *in a quote* | present | the walnut tree | house's leaves |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source |
| 9 | **moult** *in a quote* | present | the little bird *= bird* | my feathers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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