English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 7

But nobody knew, and she didn't know what to do, when a queer little old woman, all bent double, told her where it was, and how she could get to it.

Who acts: nobody, girl, queer little old woman, Well · What happens: know, not know, do, tell, be, get · To what, where: girl, Well · 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 (nobody, girl, queer little old woman, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 know	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 told	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
16	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 double	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 double	det
22	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 double	amod
23	double	double	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woman	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 double	punct
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 was	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 told	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 get	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	know	past	nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support	girl		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past	a queer little old woman	girl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	be	past	Well		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	could	girl	Well	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result

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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