English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 65

The gardener's daughter, going to draw water in the well, saw the shadow of the lady in the water and thought it was herself, and said; “If I'm so bonny, if I'm so brave, why do you send me to draw water?”

Who acts: daughter, water, you · What happens: go, draw, see, think, be, say · To what, where: water, well, shadow, daughter, bonny, lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, water, you), 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 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 daughter	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 draw	mark
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 draw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 well	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 draw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daughter	punct
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shadow	det
16	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 lady	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lady	det
19	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shadow	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lady	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 herself	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 herself	cop
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 thought	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 bonny	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 bonny	punct
33	If	if	SCONJ	_	37 bonny	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 bonny	nsubj
35	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 bonny	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 bonny	advmod
37	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 brave	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 brave	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 brave	nsubj
41	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 brave	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 brave	advmod
43	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 send	punct
45	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	48 send	advmod
46	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 send	aux
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 send	nsubj
48	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 brave	conj
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 send	iobj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 draw	mark
51	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	48 send	advcl
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 draw	obj
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	43 brave	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the gardener's daughter not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw	to-infinitive	the gardener's daughter not said here	water		the well		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme in well=Destination
3	see	past	the gardener's daughter	the shadow of the lady in the water				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	the gardener's daughter not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	water	daughter				tree rules
6	say speech: ask	past	the gardener's daughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is a in a quote	present	the gardener's daughter = daughter	bonny				tree rules
8	is in a quote	present	the gardener's daughter = daughter				brave property	tree rules
9	send in a quote	present · do-support	you		the gardener's daughter = daughter			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
10	draw in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	water				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
11	shadow			the lady in the water				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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