Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 16
And they said to her, "Take a sieve and bring water in it."
Who acts: family · What happens: say, take, bring · To what, where: mistress, sieve, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (family), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 8 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sieve | det |
| 10 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Take | conj |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | family | mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | a sieve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | water | water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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