The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 78

She washed the shirts, and hung them up to dry, and said nothing to Peter about the matter.

Who acts: queen · What happens: wash, hang up, dry, say · To what, where: shirts, nothing, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 washed	nsubj
2	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shirts	det
4	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 washed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hung	cc
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hung	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 hung	compound:prt
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dry	mark
11	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hung	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 said	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Peter	case
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 matter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wash	past	queen	the shirts			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
2	hang up	past	queen not said here	shirts = shirt			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	dry	to-infinitive	queen not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	queen not said here	nothing	Peter	about the matter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to peter=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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