The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 116
At these words Catherine dried her eyes, and next morning, when she climbed the mountain, she told all she had suffered, and cried, ‘O Destiny, my mistress, pray, I entreat you, of my Destiny that she may leave me in peace.’
Who acts: Catherine, Destiny, I · What happens: dry, climb, tell, suffer, cry, pray · To what, where: eyes, words, mountain, all, you, me · 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 (Catherine, Destiny, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dried | obl |
| 4 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dried | nsubj |
| 5 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 morning | cc |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dried | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbed | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 climbed | nsubj |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dried | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 climbed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dried | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 told | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 suffered | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 suffered | aux |
| 24 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 told | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cried | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cried | cc |
| 27 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dried | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ‘ | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 cried | punct |
| 30 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 Destiny | case |
| 31 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 cried | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mistress | punct |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Destiny | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pray | punct |
| 36 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 cried | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 entreat | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 entreat | nsubj |
| 39 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dried | conj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 entreat | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Destiny | punct |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Destiny | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 entreat | obl |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 leave | mark |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 leave | nsubj |
| 47 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 leave | aux |
| 48 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 Destiny | acl |
| 49 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 leave | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 peace | case |
| 51 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 leave | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dried | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | Catherine | Destiny's eyes | this words | morning | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | ||
| 2 | climb | past | Destiny | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Destiny | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent all=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | suffer | past · perfect | Destiny | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Catherine not said here | of Destiny | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pray | infinitive | Catherine not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | entreat | present | I | you | of my Destiny | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 8 | leave | may | Destiny | me | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location |
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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