The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 11
There she lamented her hard fate in being given over to the lindorm, and earnestly prayed her mother for counsel.
Who acts: girl · What happens: lament, give over, pray, fate · To what, where: hard fate, lindorm, mother
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lamented | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lamented | nsubj |
| 3 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fate | amod |
| 6 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lamented | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lamented | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 given | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lindorm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lindorm | det |
| 13 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 prayed | cc |
| 16 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 17 prayed | advmod |
| 17 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lamented | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prayed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 counsel | case |
| 21 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prayed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | past | girl | girl's hard fate | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give over | gerund · passive | girl not said here | the lindorm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to lindorm=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | girl not said here | girl's mother | for counsel; earnestly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fate | girl | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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