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title: For she thought she would never be able to find the Well of the Worl… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For she thought she would never be able to find the Well of the World's End, and, if she did, how could she bring home a sieve full of water? Who acts: mother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 5

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For she thought she would never be able to find the Well of the World's End, and, if she did, how could she bring home a sieve full of water?

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** think, not be, find, do, bring · **To what, where:** Well, sieve · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother), 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:pg7439:47:5
# text = For she thought she would never be able to find the Well of the World's End, and, if she did, how could she bring home a sieve full of water?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Well	Well	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	End	End	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | would | mother |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | the Well of the World's End |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | could | mother | a sieve |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sieve=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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