English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 13

“Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World's End, and I can't fill it no how at all.”

Who acts: woman · What happens: say, send, fill, not fill · To what, where: stepmother, sieve, Well, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dear	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 dear	discourse
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dear	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stepmother	nmod:poss
15	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sent	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 way	det:predet
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl:unmarked
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fill	mark
24	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	advcl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 sieve	det
26	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fill	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 water	case
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fill	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 Well	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Well	det
31	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fill	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 End	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 World	det
34	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 End	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 World	case
36	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Well	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fill	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fill	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 fill	nsubj
40	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 fill	aux
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 fill	advmod
42	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dear	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fill	obj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 how	det
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 fill	conj
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 fill	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		my stepmother		all long way obl:unmarked	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme
3	fill in a quote	to-infinitive		this sieve	the Well of the World's End	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sieve=Patient with water=Instrument
4	not fill in a quote	can	woman	sieve	all		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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