The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 122
The next morning Catherine set out earlier than usual for the mountain, and her lady’s Destiny took the girl by the hand and led her to her sister, who lay under the seven coverlids.
Who acts: Catherine, lady, sister · What happens: set out, take, lead, lie · To what, where: girl, Destiny, sister, seven coverlids
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, lady, sister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 usual | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 usual | case |
| 9 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 usual | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lady | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 lady | case |
| 18 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lady | appos |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hand | det |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 led | cc |
| 26 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 led | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sister | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sister | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 led | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lay | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lay | nsubj |
| 33 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sister | acl:relcl |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 37 coverlids | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 coverlids | det |
| 36 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 coverlids | nummod |
| 37 | coverlids | coverlid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lay | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Catherine | morning | usual property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Destiny's lady | the girl | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | Destiny's lady not said here | Destiny | Destiny's sister | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to sister=Destination | |||
| 4 | lie | past | Destiny's sister | the seven coverlids | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under coverlid=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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