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title: But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalde… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalded her to death. Who acts: Titty. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 9

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But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalded her to death.

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**Who acts:** Titty · **What happens:** go, put, tumble over, scald · **To what, where:** Titty, pot

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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 (Titty), 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:pg7439:19:9
# text = But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalded her to death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	scalded	scald	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Titty |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | Titty *not said here* |  | Titty |  |  | the pot *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent her=Goal |
| 3 | **tumble over** | participle |  | the pot *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **scald** | past | Titty *not said here* | Titty |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to death=Result |

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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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