The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 128

And does the linnet dress herself as smartly?'

What happens: do · To what, where: linnet dress

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 does	cc
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dress	det
4	linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dress	compound
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 does	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 smartly	case
8	smartly	smartly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 does	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the linnet dress				as smartly; lark obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Eventuality

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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