English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 46
Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash herself, and, looking round, she saw the well.
Who acts: fortune · What happens: be, wash, look round, see · To what, where: blood, fortune, the
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 searched | cop |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 searched | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 searched | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blood | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 searched | nsubj |
| 8 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 searched | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wash | mark |
| 12 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 searched | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 wash | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 saw | advcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 looking | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 searched | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 saw | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 saw | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | fortune | blood | for water; all, search property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | fortune not said here | fortune | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look round | gerund | fortune not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | fortune | the | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer the=Stimulus |
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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