The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 108
So the years went by, and Catherine was still there, and every day she climbed the mountain with her basket of bread on her arm.
Who acts: years, Catherine, Destiny · What happens: go by, be, climb · To what, where: mountain, arm
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 (years, Catherine, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 there | cc |
| 8 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 there | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | nsubj |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 basket | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 basket | nmod:poss |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bread | case |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 basket | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 arm | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arm | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | the years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Catherine | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | climb | past | Destiny | the mountain | Destiny's arm | day | with Destiny's basket of bread | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/108/