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title: Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she could find none. Who acts: mistress. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 15

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Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she could find none.

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**Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** search, bring, mix, make, find · **To what, where:** water, well, meal, cake, none

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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:pg7885:8:15
# text = Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she could find none.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | the mistress |  |  |  | then | for a vessel | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the mistress *not said here* | water |  | the well |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **mix** | might | mistress | the meal |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | mistress *not said here* | the cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |
| 5 | **find** | could | mistress | none |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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