The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 49
She now plotted continually how she might destroy her good fortune.
Who acts: queen · What happens: plot, destroy · To what, where: good fortune
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 (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plotted | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 plotted | advmod |
| 3 | plotted | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 3 plotted | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 destroy | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 destroy | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 destroy | aux |
| 8 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 plotted | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plot | past | queen | now | continually property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | destroy | might | queen | queen's good fortune | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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