More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 87
"And what's yellow and shining but isn't gold?"
What happens: be, shine, not be · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 yellow | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 yellow | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 yellow | cop |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shining | cc |
| 7 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 yellow | conj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gold | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gold | advmod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yellow | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | yellow property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shine in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | gold | tree rules |
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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