English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 19

So she stayed there and washed the pots and scraped the saucepans and did all the dirty work.

Who acts: maid · What happens: stay, wash, scrape, do · To what, where: pots, saucepans, dirty work

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stayed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 washed	cc
6	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pots	det
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 washed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scraped	cc
10	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saucepans	det
12	saucepans	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 scraped	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 work	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 work	det
17	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 work	amod
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stay	past	maid		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wash	past	maid not said here	the pots		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
3	scrape	past	maid not said here	the saucepans		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Patient
4	do	past	maid not said here	all dirty work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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