English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 9
But when she dipped the sieve in the cold, cold water, it all ran out again.
Who acts: woman, sieve · What happens: dip, run out · To what, where: sieve, cold cold water
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 (woman, sieve), 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 | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dipped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dipped | nsubj |
| 4 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sieve | det |
| 6 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cold | punct |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dipped | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | woman | the sieve | the cold cold water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run out | past | sieve | again | all property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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