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title: Then said the little girl: “Titty's dead, and Tatty weeps, the stool… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, b
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# English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 32

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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.”

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**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

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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 (Tatty, stool, broom, door), 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:pg7439:19:32
# text = 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.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	weeps	weep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hops	hop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	jars	jar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	creaks	creak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	round	round	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
47	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	49	det:predet	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	moults	moult	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
55	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	57	det:predet	_	_
56	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	so	so	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
61	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	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 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 |

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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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