More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 15

At length they set the stranger damsel to work; and whenever she began, the stains came out pure and clean, and the old wife made the knight believe it was her daughter had washed the clothes.

Who acts: clothes, wife, stains, old wife, knight · What happens: set, work, begin, come out, make, believe · To what, where: stranger damsel, length, knight, stain

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 (clothes, wife, stains, old wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 damsel	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 damsel	compound
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 damsel	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
12	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 began	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stains	det
17	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clean	cc
22	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pure	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	amod
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knight	det
30	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
31	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 washed	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 washed	aux:pass
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 washed	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 washed	aux
37	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 believe	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clothes	det
39	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	37 washed	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	clothes	the stranger damsel	length		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme at length=Destination
2	work	to-infinitive	clothes not said here	the stranger damsel not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	wife			whenever property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	come out	past	the stains			out, pure property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	the old wife	the knight			tree rules
6	believe	infinitive	the knight not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	wash	past · perfect · passive		stain			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary clothes=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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