Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 17

Then they were taken out of the wash-tub, starched, and hung over a chair in the sunshine, and then laid on the ironing-board.

What happens: take out, starch, hang, lay · To what, where: things, wash tub, chair, ironing board

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 taken	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	10 tub	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 tub	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tub	det
8	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tub	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 wash	punct
10	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starched	punct
12	starched	starch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hung	cc
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 starched	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sunshine	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sunshine	det
21	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laid	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 laid	advmod
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hung	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 board	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 board	det
28	ironing	ironing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 board	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ironing	punct
30	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past · passive	things = thing	the wash tub	then		tree rules
2	starch	past					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past		a chair		in the sunshine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over chair=Location
4	lay	past		the ironing board	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on board=Destination

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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