More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 13

There she was told of a gallant young knight that had given in some clothes all over blood to wash, and whoever washed them was to be his wife.

Who acts: whoever · What happens: tell, give, wash, be · To what, where: lady, gallant young knight, clothes, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 told	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 knight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knight	det
7	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 knight	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 clothes	det
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 given	obl
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 blood	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 blood	case
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 wash	mark
20	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blood	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 washed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 washed	cc
23	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 washed	nsubj
24	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 washed	obj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wife	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	30 wife	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 wife	cop
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 washed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		lady	there	of a gallant young knight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	give	past · perfect · passive		a gallant young knight	some clothes		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	wash	to-infinitive					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wash	past	whoever	clothes			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is a	past		smith's wife			tree rules

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.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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