The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 44

The girl took the sieve and carried it to the well as her sister had done; but no little birds came to help her, and after dipping it in the well two or three times she brought it back empty.

Who acts: girl, sister, little birds · What happens: take, carry, do, come, help, dip · To what, where: sieve, well, girl

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sister, little birds), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sieve	det
5	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 carried	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 birds	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 birds	amod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 help	mark
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 came	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 brought	cc
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 dipping	mark
29	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 brought	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dipping	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	37 times	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 times	det
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 two	advmod
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 three	cc
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 two	conj
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dipping	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	nsubj
39	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	39 brought	advmod
42	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 brought	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the girl	the sieve					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme
2	carry	past	the girl not said here	sieve		the well			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to well=Destination
3	do	past · perfect	girl's sister						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	no little birds						tree rules
5	help	to-infinitive	no little birds not said here		girl				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
6	dip	gerund	girl not said here	sieve			time		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
7	bring back	past	girl	sieve				empty property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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