Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 15
Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she could find none.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: search, bring, mix, make, find · To what, where: water, well, meal, cake, none
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 searched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | nsubj |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 vessel | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 searched | advcl |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 well | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 13 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 mix | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mix | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 mix | aux |
| 17 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mix | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mix | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cake | det |
| 23 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 find | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 searched | conj |
| 29 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | the mistress | then | for a vessel | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for vessel=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the mistress not said here | water | the well | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | mix | might | mistress | the meal | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | mistress not said here | the cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | ||||
| 5 | find | could | mistress | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
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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