English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 18

So the girl looked about for some moss, and lined the bottom of the sieve with it, and over that she put some clay, and then she dipped it once again into the Well of the World's End; and this time, the water didn't run out, and she turned to go away.

Who acts: girl, water · What happens: look, line, put, dip, not run out, turn · To what, where: bottom, clay, Well

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 (girl, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 moss	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 moss	det
8	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lined	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lined	cc
11	lined	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bottom	det
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lined	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sieve	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sieve	det
16	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bottom	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sieve	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
21	over	over	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 clay	det
26	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dipped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dipped	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 dipped	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dipped	nsubj
31	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dipped	obj
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 dipped	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 dipped	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 Well	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Well	det
37	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 dipped	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 End	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 World	det
40	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 End	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 World	case
42	End	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Well	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 run	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 run	cc
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 time	det
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 run	obl:unmarked
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 time	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 run	nsubj
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 run	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 run	advmod
52	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	conj
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 run	compound:prt
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 turned	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 turned	cc
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 turned	nsubj
57	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 go	mark
59	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 turned	xcomp
60	away	away	ADV	_	59 go	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the girl				for some moss; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for moss=Theme
2	line	past	the girl not said here	the bottom of the sieve with moss				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Destination
3	put	past	girl	some clay				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clay=Goal
4	dip	past	girl	clay	the Well of the World's End	then; again	once property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into well=Destination
5	not run out	past · do-support	the water			time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	past	water					tree rules
7	go away	to-infinitive	water not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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