The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 72

Catherine was so taken by surprise that she did not know what to answer, and the lady repeated again, ‘Which would you rather have-a happy youth or a happy old age?’

Who acts: surprise, woman · What happens: take, not know, answer, repeat, have · To what, where: Catherine, lady · 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 (surprise, woman), 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	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 taken	advmod
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 surprise	case
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 answer	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 answer	mark
14	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lady	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	parataxis
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lady	acl
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 repeated	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
23	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 have	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 repeated	parataxis
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 youth	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 youth	det
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 youth	amod
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lady	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 age	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 age	det
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 age	amod
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 age	amod
36	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 youth	conj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	past · passive	surprise	Catherine		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination
2	not know	past · do-support	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	repeat	participle		the lady and a happy youth or a happy old age not said here	again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	have	would				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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