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title: The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of _Uncle Remus_, who, curiously enough, use the same rhyme: “Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.” Who acts: bucket task, task. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. the Well of the World's End.,
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# English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 15

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The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of \_Uncle Remus\_, who, curiously enough, use the same rhyme: “Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.”

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**Who acts:** bucket task, task · **What happens:** be, use, fill, wi · **To what, where:** Danaids, same rhyme, task, clay

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. 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 (bucket task, task), 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:pg7439:91:15
# text = The sieve-bucket task is widespread from the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of _Uncle Remus_, who, curiously enough, use the same rhyme: “Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Danaids	Danaid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leverets	leveret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
28	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	dob	dob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bucket task |  |  | the Danaids of the Greeks to the leverets of Uncle Remus |  | widespread *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive |  | the same rhyme |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | task | clay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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