The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 124
But Catherine walked sadly down the hill, and went straight to her lady and showed her the silken ball, which was the end of all her high hopes.
Who acts: Catherine, silken ball, Destiny · What happens: walk, go, show, be, hope · To what, where: hill, silken ball, Destiny, end
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, silken ball, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 walked | cc |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hill | det |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | parataxis |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 lady | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lady | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ball | det |
| 19 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ball | amod |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 end | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 end | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 end | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ball | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hopes | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 hopes | det:predet |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hopes | amod |
| 30 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 end | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Catherine | the hill | sadly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go | past | to Destiny's lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lady=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | show | past | the silken ball | Destiny | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ball=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the silken ball | the end | of Destiny's high hopes | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hope | Destiny | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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