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title: Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash herself, an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash herself, and, looking round, she saw the well. Who acts: fortune. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 46

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Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash herself, and, looking round, she saw the well.

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**Who acts:** fortune · **What happens:** be, wash, look round, see · **To what, where:** blood, fortune, the

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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:pg7439:49:46
# text = Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash herself, and, looking round, she saw the well.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	obj	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | fortune |  |  | blood |  | for water; all, search *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | to-infinitive | fortune *not said here* | fortune |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 3 | **look round** | gerund | fortune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | fortune | the |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer the=Stimulus |

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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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