English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 16
“Stop it with moss and daub it with clay, And then it will carry the water away;”
Who acts: you, voice · What happens: stop, daub, carry away · To what, where: voice, water
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 (you, voice), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Stop | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 moss | case |
| 5 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daub | cc |
| 7 | daub | daub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 daub | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 clay | case |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daub | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carry | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 carry | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stop | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | voice | with moss | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality with moss=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | daub in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | voice | with clay | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with clay=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry away in a quote | future | voice | the water | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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