English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 21

So she went back to her stepmother, and brought the sieve full of water from the Well of the World's End.

Who acts: harm · What happens: go back, bring · To what, where: sieve, 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 (harm), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stepmother	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stepmother	nmod:poss
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sieve	det
12	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sieve	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 Well	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Well	det
18	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 End	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 World	det
21	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 End	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 World	case
23	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Well	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	harm					to harm's stepmother result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stepmother=Result
2	bring	past	harm not said here	the sieve		the Well of the World's End			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme from well=Initial_Location

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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