More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 59
"Then what, I pray thee, dost thou want here, and what may thy business be?"
Who acts: Friend, thou, business · What happens: pray, do, want, be · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friend, thou, business), 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 | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 what | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dost | punct |
| 9 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pray | conj |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dost | ccomp |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 want | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 be | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 be | obj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pray | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | present | Friend | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | Friend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | infinitive | thou | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | may | thy business | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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