--- title: It was now washed and rinsed, which process was really quite necessa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was now washed and rinsed, which process was really quite necessary, and afterwards it looked clean and transparent, and felt young again in its old age; but the paper which it had carried so faithfully was destroyed in the washing. Who acts: process, room. 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C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (process, room), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:13:92 # text = It was now washed and rinsed, which process was really quite necessary, and afterwards it looked clean and transparent, and felt young again in its old age; but the paper which it had carried so faithfully was destroyed in the washing. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 rinsed rinse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 9 det _ _ 9 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | past · passive | | room | | | now | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **rinse** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | which process | | | | | necessary *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | past | room | | | | | afterwards, clean *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **feel** | past | room *not said here* | | | | in room's old age; again | young *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in age=Attribute | | 6 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive | | the paper | | | | faithfully *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **destroy** | past · passive | | the paper | | the washing | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/93/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)