The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 103
And so it befell for seven years, and directly Catherine found a fresh place her Destiny came and forced her to leave it.
Who acts: house, Catherine, Destiny, mistress · What happens: befall, find, come, force, leave · To what, where: fresh place, mistress, house
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 (house, Catherine, Destiny, mistress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 befell | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 befell | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 befell | nsubj |
| 4 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 befell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 10 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 12 found | advmod |
| 11 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 befell | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forced | cc |
| 20 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forced | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 leave | mark |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forced | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | house | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Catherine | a fresh place | directly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 3 | come | past | mistress's Destiny | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | force | past | mistress's Destiny not said here | mistress | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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