The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 104
After seven years, however, Destiny seemed to get tired of persecuting her, and a time of peace set in for Catherine.
Who acts: Destiny · What happens: seem, get, persecute, set in · To what, where: Destiny
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 (Destiny), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seemed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 get | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 persecuting | mark |
| 13 | persecuting | persecute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tired | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 persecuting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seemed | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Catherine | case |
| 24 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Destiny | year | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Destiny not said here | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | persecute | gerund | Destiny not said here | Destiny | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set in | participle | Destiny not said here | time | for Catherine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for catherine=Beneficiary |
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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