The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 94
When the mistress reached home she called Catherine, but no Catherine was there.
Who acts: mistress, Catherine · What happens: reach, call, be · To what, where: Catherine · 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 (mistress, Catherine), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 Catherine | det |
| 12 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 there | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 called | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the mistress | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | mistress | Catherine | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent catherine=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | no Catherine | there property | 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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