The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 77
Now this beautiful lady was the Destiny of poor Catherine.
Who acts: beautiful lady · What happens: be · To what, where: Destiny
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 (beautiful lady), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lady | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Destiny | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Destiny | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Destiny | det |
| 7 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Catherine | case |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Catherine | amod |
| 10 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Destiny | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Destiny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this beautiful lady | the Destiny | of poor Catherine | 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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