The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 21
But what has all this to do with the White Slipper? my readers will ask.
Who acts: readers · What happens: have, do, ask · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (readers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Slipper | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Slipper | det |
| 10 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Slipper | amod |
| 11 | Slipper | Slipper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 readers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | my readers not said here | with the White Slipper | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | future | my readers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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