The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 144

What figures should we cut as nobles or governors?

Who acts: figures · What happens: cut

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figures), 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 figures	det
2	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 nobles	case
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 governors	cc
9	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nobles	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	should	what figures					as nobles or governors	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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