--- title: The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water, and then came away home again; but the can being broken, the most part of the water had run out before he got back. Who acts: lad, bit. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/4/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Red Ettin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/) / 4 # English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 4 The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water, and then came away home again; but the can being broken, the most part of the water had run out before he got back. **Who acts:** lad, bit · **What happens:** go away, fill, come away, break, run out, get back · **To what, where:** lad, most part This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, bit), 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:pg7439:26:4 # text = The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water, and then came away home again; but the can being broken, the most part of the water had run out before he got back. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 before before SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 43 back back ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** | past | the lad | | | | | with the well; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with well=Beneficiary | | 2 | **fill** | past | the lad *not said here* | lad | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | | 3 | **come away** | past | | | | | then; again | away, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break** | can · passive | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **run out** | past · perfect · passive | | the most part of the water | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 6 | **get back** | past | bit | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/5/) - ↑ back to [The Red Ettin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/)