The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 111

What are you seeking here at the world’s end?”

Who acts: you · What happens: seek · To what, where: end

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 seeking	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeking	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seeking	nsubj
4	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seeking	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 world	case
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seeking	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seeking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present · progressive	you			here	at the world's end		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme at end=Location

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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