The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 106
Then her lady’s Destiny would come and take away the offering.
Who acts: Destiny · What happens: come, take away · To what, where: offering
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 lady | case |
| 5 | Destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 offering | det |
| 12 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | Destiny's lady's Destiny | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take away | infinitive | Destiny's lady's Destiny not said here | the offering | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=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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