English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 8

So she did what the old woman told her, and at last arrived at the Well of the World's End.

Who acts: girl, old woman · What happens: do, tell, arrive · To what, where: girl, last · 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, old woman), 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 did	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 told	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arrived	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 arrived	obl
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 Well	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Well	det
17	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 End	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 World	det
20	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 End	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 World	case
22	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Well	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	girl				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman	girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic
3	arrive	participle	girl not said here		last	at the Well of the World's End	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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