More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 23

MR. G. What! are they dead too?

Who acts: G. · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (G.), 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	MR.	MR.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 G.	nmod:desc
2	G.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 G.	list
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 G.	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	G. MR.					dead property	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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