--- title: The girl took the sieve and carried it to the well as her sister had… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The girl took the sieve and carried it to the well as her sister had done; but no little birds came to help her, and after dipping it in the well two or three times she brought it back empty. Who acts: girl, sister, little birds. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/) / 44 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 44 The girl took the sieve and carried it to the well as her sister had done; but no little birds came to help her, and after dipping it in the well two or three times she brought it back empty. **Who acts:** girl, sister, little birds · **What happens:** take, carry, do, come, help, dip · **To what, where:** sieve, well, girl This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sister, little birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:11:44 # text = The girl took the sieve and carried it to the well as her sister had done; but no little birds came to help her, and after dipping it in the well two or three times she brought it back empty. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the girl | the sieve | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | past | the girl *not said here* | sieve | | the well | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to well=Destination | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | girl's sister | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | no little birds | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | no little birds *not said here* | | girl | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 6 | **dip** | gerund | girl *not said here* | sieve | | | time | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 7 | **bring back** | past | girl | sieve | | | | empty *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/45/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/)