The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 123

And her Destiny held out to Catherine a ball of silk, saying, ‘Keep this--it may be useful some day;’ then pulled the coverings over her head again.

Who acts: Destiny, ball · What happens: hold out, say, keep, be, pull · To what, where: ball, Catherine, this, coverings, head · 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 (Destiny, ball), 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	_	4 held	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Destiny	nmod:poss
3	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 held	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Catherine	case
7	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 silk	case
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ball	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 held	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Keep	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Keep	punct
16	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 Keep	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 useful	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 useful	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 useful	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 useful	cop
22	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Keep	parataxis
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 useful	obl:unmarked
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Keep	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Keep	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 pulled	advmod
28	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 coverings	det
30	coverings	covering	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pulled	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pulled	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	28 pulled	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold out	past	Destiny's Destiny	a ball of silk	Catherine				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Destiny's Destiny not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	infinitive		this					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4	is	may	ball				day	useful property	tree rules
5	pull	past	Destiny's Destiny not said here	the coverings		Destiny's head	then; again		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=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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