The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 92
Poor Catherine wrung her hands and wept, for she thought to herself, ‘When my lady comes back and sees all this ruin she will think it is my fault,’ and starting up, she fled through the open door.
Who acts: Poor Catherine, mistress, lady, ruin · What happens: wring, weep, think, come back, see, be · To what, where: hands, mistress, ruin, fault, open door · 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 (Poor Catherine, mistress, lady, ruin), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Catherine | amod |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrung | nsubj |
| 3 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrung | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wept | cc |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrung | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrung | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 16 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 comes | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lady | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sees | cc |
| 22 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 comes | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 ruin | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 ruin | det |
| 25 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sees | obj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | aux |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ruin | acl:relcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fault | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 fault | cop |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fault | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 think | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fault | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 starting | cc |
| 36 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 think | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 starting | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fled | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fled | nsubj |
| 40 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sees | parataxis |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 door | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 door | det |
| 43 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 door | amod |
| 44 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | past | Poor Catherine | mistress's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Poor Catherine not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | mistress | mistress | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come back | present | my lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | present | my lady not said here | all ruin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | future | mistress | all ruin not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ruin=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | ruin | my fault | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | start up | gerund | mistress not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | flee | past | mistress | the open door | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location |
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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