The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 1
Then Catherine put on her best clothes and went to the court, and looked more beautiful than any woman there.
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: put, go, look · To what, where: best clothes, court
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 woman | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Catherine | Catherine's best clothes | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Catherine not said here | the court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Catherine not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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