Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 7

‘What may you be about, Miss Cat?

What happens: be · To what, where: Miss Cat

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Cat	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 Cat	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 Cat	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 Cat	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Cat	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	9 Cat	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Cat	punct
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cat	compound
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may		Miss Cat				about 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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