Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 17

And she took the sieve and went to the well; but the water poured from it, and she could fetch none for the cake, and she sat down by the well and wept.

Who acts: mistress, water · What happens: take, go, pour, fetch, sit down, weep · To what, where: sieve, well, 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, water), 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 took	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sieve	det
5	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 poured	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 poured	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poured	nsubj
15	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poured	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fetch	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fetch	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fetch	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fetch	aux
22	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 poured	parataxis
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 fetch	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 cake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cake	det
26	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fetch	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sat	compound:prt
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 well	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 well	det
34	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wept	cc
36	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sat	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	mistress	the sieve			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme
2	go	past	mistress not said here		the well		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location
3	pour	participle	the water		sieve		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from it=Source
4	fetch	could	mistress	none		for the cake	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent none=Theme for cake=Source
5	sit down	past	mistress			by the well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location
6	weep	past	mistress not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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