English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 15

The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of _Uncle Remus_, who, curiously enough, use the same rhyme: “Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.”

Who acts: bucket task, task · What happens: be, use, fill, wi · To what, where: Danaids, same rhyme, task, clay

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. 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 (bucket task, task), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 task	det
2	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucket	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sieve	punct
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 task	compound
5	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 widespread	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 widespread	cop
7	widespread	widespread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Danaids	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Danaids	det
10	Danaids	Danaid	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 widespread	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Greeks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Greeks	det
13	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Danaids	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 leverets	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 leverets	det
16	leverets	leveret	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Danaids	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Remus	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 of	punct
19	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Remus	compound
20	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 leverets	nmod
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 widespread	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 use	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 use	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 use	punct
25	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	28 use	advmod
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 curiously	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 curiously	punct
28	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 widespread	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rhyme	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rhyme	amod
31	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	obj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Fill	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Fill	punct
34	Fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 use	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 Fill	obj
36	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dob	amod
37	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 en	compound
38	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dob	compound
39	dob	dob	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Fill	obj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wid	nsubj
41	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 dob	acl:relcl
42	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wid	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 widespread	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 widespread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bucket task		the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of Uncle Remus	widespread property	tree rules
2	use	infinitive		the same rhyme		curiously property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient
3	fill in a quote	infinitive		task			tree rules
4	wi in a quote	past	task	clay			tree rules

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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