--- title: Poor Catherine wrung her hands and wept, for she thought to herself,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Poor Catherine wrung her hands and wept, for she thought to herself, ‘When my lady comes back and sees all this ruin she will think it is my fault,’ and starting up, she fled through the open door. Who acts: Poor Catherine, mistress, lady, ruin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Catherine, mistress, lady, ruin), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:18:92 # text = Poor Catherine wrung her hands and wept, for she thought to herself, ‘When my lady comes back and sees all this ruin she will think it is my fault,’ and starting up, she fled through the open door. 1 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Catherine Catherine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wrung wring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 When when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wring** | past | Poor Catherine | mistress's hands | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 2 | **weep** | past | Poor Catherine *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mistress | | mistress | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come back** | present | my lady | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present | my lady *not said here* | all ruin | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | future | mistress | all ruin *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ruin=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | ruin | my fault | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **start up** | gerund | mistress *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 9 | **flee** | past | mistress | | | the open door | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/93/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/)