--- title: “Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World's End, and I can't fill it no how at all.” Who acts: woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg7439:47:13 # text = “Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World's End, and I can't fill it no how at all.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Well Well PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 End End PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 41 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 conj _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | my stepmother | | | | all long way *obl:unmarked* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | | 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | this sieve | | the Well of the World's End | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sieve=Patient with water=Instrument | | 4 | **not** **fill** *in a quote* | can | woman | sieve | | all | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/14/) - ↑ back to [The Well of the World's End](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/)