--- title: “Oh!” said the old man, “then I'll tumble off the ladder and break m… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh!” said the old man, “then I'll tumble off the ladder and break my neck,” so he tumbled off the ladder and broke his neck; and when the old man broke his neck, the great walnut-tree fell down with a crash, and upset the old form and house, and the house falling knocked the window out, and the win --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/33/) [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/) / 33 # English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 33 “Oh!” said the old man, “then I'll tumble off the ladder and break my neck,” so he tumbled off the ladder and broke his neck; and when the old man broke his neck, the great walnut-tree fell down with a crash, and upset the old form and house, and the house falling knocked the window out, and the window knocked the door down, and the door upset the broom, and the broom upset the stool, and poor little Tatty Mouse was buried beneath the ruins. **Who acts:** old man, man, great walnut tree, house, window, door · **What happens:** say, tumble off, break, tumble, fall down, upset · **To what, where:** ladder, neck, old form, window, door, broom · **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 (old man, man, great walnut tree, house), 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:pg7439:19:33 # text = “Oh!” said the old man, “then I'll tumble off the ladder and break my neck,” so he tumbled off the ladder and broke his neck; and when the old man broke his neck, the great walnut-tree fell down with a crash, and upset the old form and house, and the house falling knocked the window out, and the window knocked the door down, and the door upset the broom, and the broom upset the stool, and poor little Tatty Mouse was buried beneath the ruins. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! 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PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tumble off** *in a quote* | future | the old man *= man* | the ladder | | | then | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ladder=Theme | | 3 | **break** *in a quote* | infinitive | the old man *= man* *not said here* | my neck | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | | 4 | **tumble** | past | man | | | the ladder | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme off ladder=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **break** | past | man *not said here* | man's neck | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | | 6 | **break** | past | the old man | man's neck | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | | 7 | **fall down** | past | the great walnut tree | | | | | with a crash; down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **upset** | past | the old man *not said here* | the old form and house | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus form=Experiencer | | 9 | **fall** | gerund | the house *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **knock out** | past | the house | the window | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent window=Patient | | 11 | **knock down** | past | the window | the door | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 12 | **upset** | past | the door | the broom | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus broom=Experiencer | | 13 | **upset** | past | the broom | the stool | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stool=Experiencer | | 14 | **bury** | past · passive | | poor little Tatty Mouse | | the ruins | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beneath ruin=Destination | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/32/) - next →: [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/1/) - ↑ back to [Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/19/)