The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 117

And Destiny answered, ‘Oh, my poor girl, know you not your Destiny lies buried under seven coverlids, and can hear nothing?

Who acts: Destiny · What happens: answer, not know, lie, bury, hear · To what, where: you, seven coverlids, nothing

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 girl	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 girl	punct
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 girl	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 girl	nmod:poss
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Destiny	nmod:poss
16	Destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lies	nsubj
17	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	advcl
18	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lies	xcomp
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 coverlids	case
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 coverlids	nummod
21	coverlids	coverlid	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 buried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hear	cc
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hear	aux
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 hear	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Destiny			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present		you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	lie	present	your Destiny			tree rules
4	bury	participle	your Destiny not said here		seven coverlids	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under coverlid=Destination
5	hear	can		nothing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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