The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 252

They unlaced her bodice, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but all in vain; the child was dead and remained dead.

Who acts: dwarfs, child · What happens: unlace, comb, wash, be, remain · To what, where: bodice, hair, SNOWDROP

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, child), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unlaced	nsubj
2	unlaced	unlace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bodice	nmod:poss
4	bodice	bodice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unlaced	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 combed	punct
6	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unlaced	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 combed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 washed	punct
10	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unlaced	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 washed	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 washed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wine	cc
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vain	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 vain	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 vain	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 vain	case
20	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 washed	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dead	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 unlaced	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 remained	cc
27	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dead	conj
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remained	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unlaced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unlace	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP's bodice		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bodice=Patient
2	comb	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	SNOWDROP's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	wash	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	SNOWDROP	with water and wine	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with water=Instrument
4	is	past	the child		dead property	tree rules
5	remain	participle	the child not said here		dead property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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