English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 6
Well, the girl started off, and asked every one she met to tell her where was the Well of the World's End.
Who acts: girl, one, Well · What happens: start off, ask, meet, tell, be · To what, where: girl · 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 (girl, one, Well), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 started | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 met | nsubj |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 met | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 where | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Well | det |
| 20 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 where | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 End | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 World | det |
| 23 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 End | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 World | case |
| 25 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Well | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | every one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | every one not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the Well of the World's End | where property | 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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