The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 34

So the girl set out to look for the cat, and, as she was hunting about, she met her brother, in great trouble because he could not carry water from the well in a sieve, as it came pouring out as fast as he put it in.

Who acts: girl, peasant, cat · What happens: set out, look, hunt, meet, not carry, come · To what, where: brother, water, well, cat

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, peasant, cat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hunting	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 hunting	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hunting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hunting	aux
17	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 set	advcl
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 hunting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 met	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 met	nsubj
21	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 met	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trouble	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 trouble	case
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trouble	amod
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 met	advcl
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 carry	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 carry	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 carry	advmod
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trouble	advcl
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carry	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 well	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 well	det
36	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carry	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 sieve	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 sieve	det
39	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carry	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 came	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 met	conj
44	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 came	xcomp
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 pouring	compound:prt
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 fast	advmod
47	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 pouring	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 put	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 put	nsubj
50	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 pouring	advcl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 put	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	50 put	compound:prt
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the girl				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			for the cat	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cat=Theme
3	hunt	past · progressive	girl			about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	meet	past	girl	girl's brother			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent
5	not carry	could	peasant	water	the well	in a sieve	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
6	come	past	cat				tree rules
7	pour out	gerund	cat not said here			fast property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
8	put in	past	peasant	cat			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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