More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 14

The old wife had washed till she was tired, and then she set her daughter at it, and both washed, and they washed, and they washed, in hopes of getting the young knight; but for all they could do they couldn't bring out a stain.

Who acts: wife, clothes, hopes, all · What happens: wash, be, set, get, do, not bring out · To what, where: old wife, daughter, blood, both, hopes, young knight

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 (wife, clothes, hopes, all), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 washed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 washed	aux
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 tired	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tired	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	cop
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 washed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 set	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 washed	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 washed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 washed	cc
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 washed	nsubj:pass
22	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 set	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 washed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 washed	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 washed	nsubj
26	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 washed	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 washed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 washed	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 washed	nsubj
30	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 washed	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hopes	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 hopes	case
33	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 washed	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 getting	mark
35	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 hopes	acl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knight	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 knight	amod
38	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 getting	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 bring	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 bring	cc
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 bring	nsubj:outer
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 all	acl:relcl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 bring	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 bring	aux
48	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 bring	advmod
49	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 washed	conj
50	out	out	ADP	_	49 bring	compound:prt
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 stain	det
52	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bring	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past · perfect · passive		the old wife				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	wife				tired property	tree rules
3	set	past	wife	wife's daughter	blood	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme at it=Destination
4	wash	participle · passive		both				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	wash	past	clothes					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wash	past	clothes	hopes				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
7	get	gerund	hopes not said here	the young knight				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
8	do	could	clothes					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not bring out	could	all	a stain				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stain=Patient

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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