The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 10
‘It was given me, royal majesty, by my mistress,’ replied Catherine.
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: give, reply · To what, where: silk, me
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mistress | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 majesty | punct |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 majesty | amod |
| 8 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mistress | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | silk | me | royal majesty obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Catherine | give my mistress | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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