The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 99

And Catherine answered, ‘Ah, my lady, I am very poor, and must go to service to earn my bread.’

Who acts: Catherine, I · What happens: answer, be, go, earn · To what, where: service, bread · 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 (Catherine, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lady	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 lady	punct
6	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 lady	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ah	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lady	nmod:poss
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poor	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 poor	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 poor	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 poor	advmod
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 service	case
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 earn	mark
22	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	advcl
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bread	nmod:poss
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 earn	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Catherine				tree rules
2	is	present	I			poor property	tree rules
3	go	must			service		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to service=Initial_Location
4	earn	to-infinitive		my bread			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

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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