The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 132
‘Catherine!’ exclaimed the lady, who had been to the tailors and seen the wedding garment, ‘your ball of silk is exactly the right colour.
Who acts: Catherine, lady, silk · What happens: exclaim, be, see · To what, where: lady, wedding garment
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, silk), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catherine | punct |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catherine | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catherine | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tailors | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tailors | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tailors | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 tailors | cop |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tailors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tailors | det |
| 14 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lady | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garment | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 garment | compound |
| 19 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ball | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 ball | punct |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ball | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 colour | case |
| 25 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 colour | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 colour | cop |
| 27 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 30 colour | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 colour | det |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 colour | amod |
| 30 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ball | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Catherine | the lady and the tailors | your ball obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the lady and the tailors | to the tailors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | Catherine not said here | the wedding garment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garment=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | silk | of the right colour; exactly property | tree rules |
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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