The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
By the way, what sort of weather have you been having lately?"
What happens: have, sort · To what, where: weather
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 having | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 sort | det |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 weather | case |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sort | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 having | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 having | aux |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 12 having | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 having | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect · progressive | by the way; lately property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sort | weather | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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