The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 44
Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that great happiness waited her sisters, but that a fate was in store for her such as had never before been known in the world.
Who acts: thoughts, great happiness, fate, Princess · What happens: keep, turn, write, wait, be, not know · To what, where: book, sisters, store, world
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, great happiness, fate, Princess), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 written | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 written | obl |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kept | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 waited | mark |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 happiness | amod |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | nsubj |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 waited | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 store | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 store | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 store | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fate | det |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 store | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 store | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 store | case |
| 26 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 known | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 known | nmod:poss |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 known | mark |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 such | fixed |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 known | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 known | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 35 known | advmod |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 known | aux:pass |
| 35 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 store | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 known | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Princess's thoughts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Princess's thoughts not said here | the book | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to book=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | Princess's thoughts not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in which=Destination | |||||
| 4 | wait | past | great happiness | Princess's sisters | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a fate | store | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · perfect · passive | a fate not said here | the world | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 7 | think | Princess | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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