The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 68
'Beautiful lady, by what mischance do you come here?
Who acts: Beautiful lady · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Beautiful lady), 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 | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 2 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mischance | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mischance | obl |
| 7 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | conj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | Beautiful lady and mischance | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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