The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 101
But, exactly as before, one day that Catherine was left in the house alone her Destiny came again and spoke to her with hard words: ‘What! are you here now?’
Who acts: one day, you · What happens: leave, come, speak, be · To what, where: Catherine, house, mistress · 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 (one day, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 before | punct |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 before | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 10 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 left | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoke | cc |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoke | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 26 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 words | amod |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoke | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 30 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 here | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 What | punct |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 here | cop |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 here | nsubj |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 came | parataxis |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 here | advmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Catherine | the house | alone property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme destiny=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come | past | one day | again | before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | one day not said here | mistress | with hard words | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | now | here property | tree rules |
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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