Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 109

But what is it, and where is it to be found?

What happens: be · To what, where: instant

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 what	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 what	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 found	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 found	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 found	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 what	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		instant					tree rules
2	is	present · passive		instant				find 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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