English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 4
At last, one day, the stepmother thought to get rid of her altogether; so she handed her a sieve and said to her: “Go, fill it at the Well of the World's End and bring it home to me full, or woe betide you.”
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: think, get, hand, say, go, fill · To what, where: sieve, mother, End, Well, stepmother, woe · 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 (stepmother), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stepmother | det |
| 8 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rid | obl |
| 15 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 handed | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 handed | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | nsubj |
| 19 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sieve | det |
| 22 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 handed | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 handed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Go | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Go | punct |
| 29 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fill | punct |
| 31 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 Go | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fill | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 End | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Well | det |
| 35 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 End | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 End | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 World | det |
| 38 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 End | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 World | case |
| 40 | End | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fill | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bring | cc |
| 42 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 Go | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bring | obj |
| 44 | home | home | ADV | _ | 42 bring | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 bring | obl |
| 47 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bring | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 betide | punct |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 woe | cc |
| 50 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 betide | obl |
| 51 | betide | betide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 19 handed | conj |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 betide | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the stepmother | day | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | altogether, rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hand | past | stepmother | a sieve | mother | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination sieve=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother not said here | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | fill in a quote | infinitive | sieve | at the World's End | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Well | stepmother | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 8 | betide in a quote | present | stepmother not said here | woe | tree rules |
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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