The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 96
She wondered why Catherine should have disappeared like this, but she heard no more of her, and in a few days she filled her place.
Who acts: mistress, Catherine · What happens: wonder, disappear, hear, fill · To what, where: more, place
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 disappeared | advmod |
| 4 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 disappeared | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 disappeared | aux |
| 7 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wondered | advcl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 disappeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 more | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 filled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 filled | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 filled | nsubj |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | mistress | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | disappear | should · perfect | Catherine | like this | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | mistress | no more | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | mistress | mistress's place | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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