The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 29

One day a big washing was going on at the palace, and the girl looking down from her window saw twelve men’s shirts hanging up to dry, and asked her mother:

Who acts: big washing, girl, shirts · What happens: go on, look down, see, hang up, dry, ask · To what, where: palace, shirts, mother

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big washing, girl, shirts), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 washing	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 washing	amod
5	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	nsubj
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 girl	acl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 looking	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 window	nmod:poss
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looking	obl
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	parataxis
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 men	nummod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shirts	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 men	case
25	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obj
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 shirts	acl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 hanging	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dry	mark
29	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hanging	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 asked	cc
32	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 asked	obj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	a big washing			the palace	day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at palace=Location
2	look down	gerund	the girl not said here					from girl's window; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme
3	see	past	the girl	twelve men's shirts					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shirt=Stimulus
4	hang up	gerund	twelve men's shirts not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dry	to-infinitive	twelve men's shirts not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	ask speech: ask	past	the girl not said here		girl's mother				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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