--- title: Dick went upstairs and brought down poor puss, with tears in his eye… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Dick went upstairs and brought down poor puss, with tears in his eyes, and gave her to the captain; “For,” he said, “I shall now be kept awake all night by the rats and mice.” Who acts: Dick, rats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, rats), 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:pg7439:37:41 # text = Dick went upstairs and brought down poor puss, with tears in his eyes, and gave her to the captain; “For,” he said, “I shall now be kept awake all night by the rats and mice.” 1 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 upstairs upstairs ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 For for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 36 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Dick | | | | | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bring down** | past | Dick *not said here* | poor puss | | | | with tears in Dick's eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent puss=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | Dick *not said here* | | Mr. | | | to the captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to captain=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dick | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | shall · passive | the rats and mice | Dick | | | now; night | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/42/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)