The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 73
Then Catherine thought to herself, ‘If I say a happy youth, then I shall have to suffer all the rest of my life.
Who acts: Catherine, I · What happens: think, say, have, suffer · To what, where: woman, happy youth, rest · 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 (Catherine, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 youth | amod |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 have | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 suffer | mark |
| 20 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 rest | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suffer | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Catherine | woman | then | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | I | a happy youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | I | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suffer | to-infinitive | I not said here | all rest of my life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus |
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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