The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 17

And then they were taken out of the wash-tub, starched, and hung on a chair in the sun to dry, and then laid on the ironing-board.

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

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 taken	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 taken	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	11 tub	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 tub	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tub	det
9	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tub	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wash	punct
11	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starched	punct
13	starched	starch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hung	cc
16	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 starched	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 chair	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chair	det
19	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sun	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 dry	mark
24	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hung	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 laid	advmod
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 starched	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 board	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 board	det
31	ironing	ironing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 board	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ironing	punct
33	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 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	participle		a chair		in the sun	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
4	dry	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	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: «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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