Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 58

He took the sieve in his hand and went over to the river, but as often as ever he would stoop and fill it with water, the moment he raised it the water would run out of it again, and sure, if he had been there from that day till this, he never could have filled it.

Who acts: hound, moment · What happens: take, go over, stoop, fill, raise, run · To what, where: sieve, hand

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hound, moment), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sieve	det
4	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stoop	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stoop	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 often	advmod
17	often	often	ADV	_	22 stoop	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 often	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stoop	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stoop	aux
22	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fill	cc
24	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 stoop	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fill	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fill	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 run	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 run	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 raised	nsubj
32	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 moment	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 raised	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 raised	obj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 run	aux
37	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 stoop	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	40 it	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 run	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	37 run	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sure	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sure	cc
44	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 there	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 there	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 there	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 there	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 there	cop
50	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 sure	ccomp
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 day	case
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 day	det
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 there	obl
54	till	till	ADP	_	55 this	case
55	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 day	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 filled	punct
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 filled	nsubj
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	61 filled	advmod
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 filled	aux
60	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 filled	aux
61	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 there	conj
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 filled	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	hound	the sieve	hound's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sieve=Value in hand=Location
2	go over	past	hound not said here				to the river; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	stoop	would	hound				often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fill	infinitive	hound not said here	sieve			with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument
5	raise	past	hound	sieve				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme water=Destination
6	run	would	the moment		sieve	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out it=Trajectory
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	hound			day	there property	tree rules
8	not fill	could · perfect	hound	sieve				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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