The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 45

What would they have for their next dinner, and, what was more important still, who would there be to eat it?

Who acts: lies · What happens: have, be, eat · To what, where: dinner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lies), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 have	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nmod:poss
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dinner	amod
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 important	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 important	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 important	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 important	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 important	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 important	advmod
15	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 important	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 be	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 be	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 be	advmod
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 important	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 be	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	lies = lie				for lies's next dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	is	past				still	important property	tree rules
3	be	would			there			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive		dinner				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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