The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 9

One day they sent her to the brook to fetch some water home, and an ugly and horrible head rose up out of the water, and said, ‘Wash me, girl!’

Who acts: sister, ugly head · What happens: send, fetch, rise up, say, wash · To what, where: mother, brook, water, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, ugly head), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 brook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fetch	mark
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	10 fetch	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rose	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rose	cc
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 head	det
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 head	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 horrible	cc
19	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ugly	conj
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	nsubj
21	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 rose	compound:prt
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 water	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Wash	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Wash	punct
32	Wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 Wash	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 girl	punct
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Wash	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Wash	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 Wash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	sister	mother	the brook	day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to brook=Destination
2	fetch	to-infinitive	sister not said here	some water			home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	rise up	past	a ugly head		the water			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	sister not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wash	infinitive		me			girl obl	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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