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English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 47

She sat down on the brink of it, and one of the heads came up, saying: “Wash me, comb me, and lay me down softly,” as before, but she banged it with her bottle, saying, “Take that for your washing.”

Who acts: fortune, one, your · What happens: sit down, come up, say, wash, comb, lay down · To what, where: brink, me, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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, one, your), 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

nsubjcompound:prtcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccnsubjcasedetnmodconjadvmodpunctadvclpunctpunctccompobjpunctconjobjpunctccconjobjcompound:prtadvmodpunctpunctcaseoblpunctccnsubjconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctadvclpunctpunctccompobjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctrootShePRONsatVERBdownADPonADPtheDETbrinkNOUNofADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJoneNUMofADPtheDETheadsNOUNcameVERBupADV,PUNCTsayingVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTWashVERBmePRON,PUNCTcombVERBmePRON,PUNCTandCCONJlayVERBmePRONdownADPsoftlyADV,PUNCT”PUNCTasADPbeforeADV,PUNCTbutCCONJshePRONbangedVERBitPRONwithADPherPRONbottleNOUN,PUNCTsayingVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTTakeVERBthatPRONforADPyourPRONwashingNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 satnsubj
2satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3downdownADP_2 satcompound:prt
4ononADP_6 brinkcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 brinkdet
6brinkbrinkNOUNNumber=Sing2 satobl
7ofofADP_8 itcase
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 brinknmod
9,,PUNCT_15 camepunct
10andandCCONJ_15 camecc
11oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 camensubj
12ofofADP_14 headscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 headsdet
14headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur11 onenmod
15camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 satconj
16upupADV_15 cameadvmod
17,,PUNCT_18 sayingpunct
18sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 cameadvcl
19::PUNCT_21 Washpunct
20“"PUNCT_21 Washpunct
21WashwashVERBVerbForm=Inf18 sayingccomp
22meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 Washobj
23,,PUNCT_24 combpunct
24combcombVERBVerbForm=Inf21 Washconj
25meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 combobj
26,,PUNCT_28 laypunct
27andandCCONJ_28 laycc
28laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf21 Washconj
29meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 layobj
30downdownADP_28 laycompound:prt
31softlysoftlyADV_28 layadvmod
32,,PUNCT_21 Washpunct
33”"PUNCT_21 Washpunct
34asasADP_35 beforecase
35beforebeforeADV_21 Washobl
36,,PUNCT_39 bangedpunct
37butbutCCONJ_39 bangedcc
38sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 bangednsubj
39bangedbangVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 satconj
40ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 bangedobj
41withwithADP_43 bottlecase
42herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 bottlenmod:poss
43bottlebottleNOUNNumber=Sing39 bangedobl
44,,PUNCT_45 sayingpunct
45sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part39 bangedadvcl
46,,PUNCT_48 Takepunct
47“"PUNCT_48 Takepunct
48TaketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf45 sayingccomp
49thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem48 Takeobj
50forforADP_52 washingcase
51youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs52 washingnmod:poss
52washingwashingNOUNNumber=Sing48 Takeobl
53..PUNCT_48 Takepunct
54”"PUNCT_48 Takepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sit downpastfortunethe brink of brinkvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location
2come uppastone of the headsvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertgerundone of the heads not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4wash in a quoteinfinitivemevn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5comb in a quoteinfinitivemevn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6lay down in a quoteinfinitivemesoftly propertyvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result
7bangpastfortunebrinkwith fortune's bottlevn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bottle=Instrument
8say speech: assertgerundfortune not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9take in a quoteinfinitivethatfor your washingvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for washing=Beneficiary
10wash in a quoteyournom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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