The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 81
So poor Catherine was left alone in the world without a penny or a creature to help her.
What happens: leave, help · To what, where: poor Catherine, world, woman
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Catherine | amod |
| 3 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 penny | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 penny | det |
| 12 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 creature | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 creature | det |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 penny | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 creature | acl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | poor Catherine | the world | without a penny or a creature; alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | woman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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