The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 13
Now there lived at the court a wise woman, and she said to Catherine, ‘You have suffered much, my poor girl, but at length your luck has turned, and I know by the weighing of the scales through the crown that you will die a queen.’
Who acts: woman, You, luck, I, crown · What happens: live, say, suffer, turn, know, die · To what, where: wise woman, court, Catherine, length, crown, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, You, luck, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Catherine | case |
| 15 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffered | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffered | punct |
| 18 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 suffered | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 suffered | aux |
| 20 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 suffered | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 girl | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 girl | nmod:poss |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 girl | amod |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suffered | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 length | case |
| 29 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 luck | nmod:poss |
| 31 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | aux |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 suffered | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 weighing | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 weighing | det |
| 40 | weighing | weighing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 know | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 scales | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 scales | det |
| 43 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 weighing | nmod |
| 44 | through | through | ADP | _ | 46 crown | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 crown | det |
| 46 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 know | obl |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 die | nsubj |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 die | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 die | aux |
| 50 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 crown | acl:relcl |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 queen | det |
| 52 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 die | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | a wise woman | the court; there | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to catherine=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | suffer | present · perfect | You | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | turn | present · perfect | your luck | length | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at length=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | know | present | I | the crown | by the weighing of the scales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | die | future | the crown | a queen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | weigh | the scales | nom weighing «cognition transitive»: of=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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