Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 140

The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof.

Who acts: white dress · What happens: hang, wash, dry · To what, where: hook, dress, teapot, roof

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white dress), 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 dress	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dress	amod
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hanging	aux
5	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hook	det
8	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 washed	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 washed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 washed	aux:pass
12	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hanging	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 teapot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 teapot	det
15	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 washed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dried	cc
18	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 washed	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roof	det
21	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dried	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang	present · progressive	the white dress		the hook	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location
2	wash	past · passive		dress	the teapot	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	dry	participle			the roof	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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