The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 100
‘I will take you into my service,’ said the lady; and Catherine served her well, and hoped she might now be left in peace.
Who acts: I, lady, Catherine, my · What happens: take, say, serve, hope, leave, service · To what, where: you, service, mistress, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lady, Catherine, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 service | nmod:poss |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 served | cc |
| 16 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 served | nsubj |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 served | obj |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 served | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hoped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hoped | cc |
| 22 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 served | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 left | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hoped | ccomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 peace | case |
| 29 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | you | my service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | Catherine | mistress | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | |||
| 4 | hope | past | Catherine not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | might · passive | mistress | peace | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 6 | service | my | nom service «act 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 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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