Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 17

At noon when she went to bring water, it suddenly dried up before her, and she began to weep.

Who acts: sister, water · What happens: go, bring, dry up, begin, weep · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dried	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dried	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 dried	advmod
12	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 dried	compound:prt
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 weep	mark
21	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sister		noon		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	to-infinitive	sister not said here	water			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	dry up	past	water		before sister	suddenly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	sister				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	sister not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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