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title: So the girl looked about for some moss, and lined the bottom of the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the girl looked about for some moss, and lined the bottom of the sieve with it, and over that she put some clay, and then she dipped it once again into the Well of the World's End; and this time, the water didn't run out, and she turned to go away. Who acts: girl, water. A sentence of «English Fa
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# English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 18

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So the girl looked about for some moss, and lined the bottom of the sieve with it, and over that she put some clay, and then she dipped it once again into the Well of the World's End; and this time, the water didn't run out, and she turned to go away.

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**Who acts:** girl, water · **What happens:** look, line, put, dip, not run out, turn · **To what, where:** bottom, clay, Well

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7439:47:18
# text = So the girl looked about for some moss, and lined the bottom of the sieve with it, and over that she put some clay, and then she dipped it once again into the Well of the World's End; and this time, the water didn't run out, and she turned to go away.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lined	line	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Well	Well	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	End	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
50	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	away	away	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | for some moss; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for moss=Theme |
| 2 | **line** | past | the girl *not said here* | the bottom of the sieve with moss |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Destination |
| 3 | **put** | past | girl | some clay |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clay=Goal |
| 4 | **dip** | past | girl | clay |  | the Well of the World's End | then; again | once *property* | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into well=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **run out** | past · do-support | the water |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go away** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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