The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 38

For you’ll find that water will stay in the sieve.’

Who acts: you, water · What happens: find, stay · To what, where: sieve

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 (you, water), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 find	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stay	advcl
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sieve	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sieve	det
11	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	you						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	stay	future	that water			the sieve			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sieve=Location

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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